The Open-Office Trap

Re:The Open-Office Trap by shortstuffsushi on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @09:55PM (#8697637)

Perhaps this is more of the norm in the Bay Area (I assume that's where you're from, from your other comment), but I've never seen anything as open as that (dogs at least). I don't think anyone would claim that a "bring your dog to work and let it roam around freely" sort of environment would be productive. I'm surprised they would allow that at all, seems like it could cause other problems as well.

I still don't think that sort of generalization is fair, though. I think a normal, sane office could be open, but without the ongoings that seem to be present in the environments you and the parent witnessed. Well, I can definitely vouch for that being the case in the office I work in.

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Re:The Open-Office Trap by danielweber on Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:50AM (#8699437)

I was interviewing at a company in Chicago with the open office plan, foosball table right next to the engineers, and people blasting the Indiana Jones theme over the speakers.

They said they had trouble finding senior people. If I had been more aggressive I would have told them "have you considered having an adults table?"

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Re:The Open-Office Trap by shortstuffsushi on Thursday December 04, 2014 @03:59PM (#8701592)

As someone who is in no way a senior developer, I can't imagine working in this sort of environment. Then again, I've been working exclusively in enterprise up to this point.

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Re:The Open-Office Trap by shortstuffsushi on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:38PM (#8703028)

I guess I can't add an edit to my post, but ironically, a day later, a friend of mine posted on Twitter about having his dog at work. So maybe I am the one with the unusual office.

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