Re:Let me take you through my dream office
by mseebach on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:32AM
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Yes, I agree that co-locating teams that aren't directly collaborating can be counterproductive. Loud sales teams, obviously, yes, but quieter teams will also have different patterns of buzz that will be disturbing to unrelated teams near them.
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It's interesting. They get REALLY PISSED at the developers about stuff.
Re:Let me take you through my dream office
by noir_lord on Saturday April 29, 2017 @05:22AM
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When I've worked in none-developer companies I've always found the office staff are fine as long as you don't rub it in their faces that you earn more and have more freedom.
Well except one place where the people in the office where just horrible (really toxic culture largly down to the 'office manager' been about one step short of invading Poland) so I just did as I pleased (wandering in at 10am wearing flip flops and combat shorts), I was pulling 60hr weeks so the boss didn't care and she hated me anyway because she had to do payroll and knew what I was earning, I was knackered from day one on that job.
Re:Let me take you through my dream office
by dhimes on Saturday April 29, 2017 @10:34AM
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What's interesting here is the sales group is from a different company. Their devs are at a different office. So I hear the stuff like a fly on the wall.
What I don't hear is the root cause of the angst. Is the sales team overpromising? I don't know. But when something's not ready for their demo it gets quite loud.