And said engineers often end up wishing they hadn't. Interacting directly with stakeholders isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe I've just had good luck with

And said engineers often end up wishing they hadn't. Interacting directly with stakeholders isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe I've just had good luck with product managers, but I tend to enjoy my work the most when someone else is filtering the stakeholders' long and constantly changing wishlist for me and turning it into something coherent and actionable.