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When I first saw the photograph of the interns' office, I thought that the article was a joke. I really don't understand how anybody could program productively
by turnersauce 17y ago
When I first saw the photograph of the interns' office, I thought that the article was a joke. I really don't understand how anybody could program productively under those conditions.
- albertni 17y agomeh they went to MIT, I'm really not surprised
- jasonkester 17y agoSame here. Though I guess it can't be all that much less productive than the 20 devs in a room with the ping pong table + fooseball table + Playstation & bigscreen + DJ Turntables & PA (seriously!) environment that was so good at burning through $50M in six months back in the good old days. Probably not quite as much fun though.
- wisty 17y agoCrowded offices can be good for climbing a learning curve. The biggest problem most of the interns would face would be setting up their systems, getting the build to work, and figuring out how to integrate stuff into the system. Lots of communication is good for that. If they needed to do any deep thinking, I hoped they would have been allowed to work from home for a day.
- Groxx 17y agoCrowded offices can be good for climbing a learning curve. Exactly my experience for my first internship, though it was far from that crowded. We picked up C# and a large framework (and some, a second language) well enough to be productive in a week and a half. (my top-level comment has more details)