It's popular to hate on open floor layouts, but I personally find myself more productive in that environment than with a private office. I think little moments

It's popular to hate on open floor layouts, but I personally find myself more productive in that environment than with a private office. I think little moments where a quick chat with another developer, a manager, a project/product manager/business analyst clears things up or unblocks me are more frequent than times when I need intense deep quiet uninterrupted concentration. And it's easier to indicate to the rest of the team that you need to be not disturbed with stuff like those expensive headphones than to go wander the hallways to other people's offices, or have to organize meetings whenever you want to have more than 2 people in a quick huddle. If you're working from specs on a multi-month timeline, sure, lock me away into an office and I'll come back with what you asked for. But if you want to work quickly, build MVPs, iterate with customer feedback, and change direction quickly, an open floor layout is infinitely better even if it makes a couple antisocial engineers grumble about it on their blog.