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When teams go through the motions of collaboration

Our engineering team has this thing where we'll spend three hours debating architecture decisions and then our senior engineer will just implement whatever they wanted anyway, and everyone knows this pattern but we keep playing along with the charade of collaborative decision-making. I'm starting to feel like we're all complicit in this weird theater.

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Your team pretends to decide together while the senior engineer just does what he wants, and you all play along.

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