"Here at Fog Creek Software we get a lot of requests for a tour of the office, which we usually have to decline: we have this unusual obsession with giving prog

"Here at Fog Creek Software we get a lot of requests for a tour of the office, which we usually have to decline: we have this unusual obsession with giving programmers quiet working conditions." An open-plan office that's far from silent because there are people around you working is bad enough, but the thing I hated most about the office situation at my last job was that whenever press, potential business partners, interview candidates, etc. visited, they were given a tour of the office. I always felt like I was an animal at the zoo. ("oh look! a code monkey! throw him some peanuts, maybe he'll code faster!")