Our product team of eight has this dynamic where the two senior developers basically decide everything in side conversations and then present it to the rest of us as if it was collaborative, and I think everyone sees it but nobody calls it out because those two guys are really good at their jobs. We're all complicit in pretending we're a team when we're really just their support staff.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people quietly make all the decisions while the team pretends everyone has a say.
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