I'm upvoting this for the title and closing paragraph: “Facebook is paying 40-50% more than other places,” Spolsky said at the GeekWire conference. “Which is usually a sign developers don’t want to work there.”

I abhor open floor plans. As a grad student, I have to share a room with several people (all of whom I respect), but we all unintentionally distract one another in some form every day, and it slows us all down!