I may have just been lucky in my career but I cannot remember not being met by an engineer on arrival.
Usual procedure was to discuss problems with the engineers and then agree on a sensible wording of a snag so that confusion was avoided and when a shift handover came continuity could be assured.
Bombaysaffires Sounds as though many of the operations you surveyed didn't have an engineer meet the aircraft?
I agree with 411A that the specific alphanumeric codes for problems should be used yet my last major airline, for some unexplained reason, chose not too.