Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by elnado on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:40PM
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Haha I used to be at Microsoft in a building like you described: a combination of open space with offices and break-out areas. They're trying to renovate all their buildings to follow this hybrid approach as they did with building 16 which is just incredibly gorgeous (https://news.microsoft.com/stories/b16/).
Now I'm at a startup in the bay are that adopted the generic open-space/warehouse design and although I'm happy with the move career-wise, I really do miss being able to concentrate...
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Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by jpgvm on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:36PM
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I'm fairly certain Microsoft is like the gold standard when it comes to office spaces. I have always been super impressed when visiting any Microsoft campus.
Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by coredog64 on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:16PM
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As I understand it, they went so far as to build office buildings that could efficiently house as many private offices as possible. So rather than a volume efficient cube, they would build long, thin buildings with offices around the perimeter and shared services in the center.
Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by adrianratnapala on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:35PM
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So on the plus side of working for Microsoft is that you get windows in your office. Which compensates for the minus side, which is that you get Windows in your office.
Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by elnado on Monday October 10, 2016 @08:00PM
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Hahaha too true, too true. My lingering loyalty to MS obliges me to defend this though. There were custom shells, dev tools, and compilers for almost every major project combined with Visual Studio and C-family languages (which is an extremely overpowered editor btw - I mean you can even do 3D editing with it, proof: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Visual-Studio-3D-StarterKit) so, to be honest you didn't really miss Linux/Mac OS X that much.
Re:Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
by elnado on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:48PM
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Right. There's a running joke that building 36 (the main Office building) looks like the mothership (or jail, depending on who you ask) because of this criteria.