Ask HN: Do you know any software company not placing developrs in an open space?

Posted by smikhanov on Saturday December 13, 2014 @05:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Despite all research arguing that open spaces hurt productivity, big software companies still place their engineeres in open spaces. Google does, Facebook does, Twitter does, every startup in London I know of does too.

Fog Creek is one well-publicized case thanks to Joel Spolsky. Are there ANY OTHER companies in the world that don't place developers in an open space?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you know any software company not placing deve... by hjhehi on Saturday December 13, 2014 @12:02PM (#8745595)

http://inin.com gave almost every developer an office with door (and many with window) when I worked there.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you know any software company not placing deve... by emilsundberg on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:15AM (#8745016)

Campaign Monitor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHC6DkNpRU)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you know any software company not placing deve... by peacemaker on Saturday December 13, 2014 @03:42PM (#8746327)

Yeah, Garmin stuff 2 or 3 developers into an office and believe me, it's much worse than open space.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you know any software company not placing deve... by hkarthik on Saturday December 13, 2014 @10:45AM (#8745381)

I believe Amazon uses smaller enclosed team spaces.

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