He may be right, but as an employer, your aim won't be to make all your programmers famous. The work better done behind closed doors is probably at least as imp

He may be right, but as an employer, your aim won't be to make all your programmers famous. The work better done behind closed doors is probably at least as important as that of the visionary with open doors: putting out fires, fixing bugs, meeting deadlines. As an employee, you'll surely want the "open door" work ...