At my company, design reviews are not as restricting as the capstone design review session. No one is forced to be silent while their project is being evaluated. There’s more of a dialogue between the team and the one who is evaluating the project idea. We’ve had design review sessions with different department managers such as the marketing and quality managers and even the VP of R&D so that we get perspectives from other angles apart from our own. Generally, the environment is very respectful and a lot of times quite engaging because the team makes a good effort to captivate whoever the project idea is being presented to and try to cover all gray areas so that they are not pointed out to us by someone else.