In 12 years working in the US I’ve never worked in a situation where the stakeholders get to set requirements like that; it’s always been us, the engineers, des

In 12 years working in the US I’ve never worked in a situation where the stakeholders get to set requirements like that; it’s always been us, the engineers, designing and implementing and deciding what needs designing. I suppose I’ve been lucky not to have had to deal with the more traditional model; my impression is it’s more common in Europe and away from SV-influenced US tech companies.