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Not true any more. :-/

• dpark 15y ago
  Yes it is. There might be some devs in cubicles somewhere, but I don't know any of them. Everyone I know at Microsoft has an office (including myself). I have seen a building with some cubicles, but I don't know who uses those.
  • laconian 15y ago
    Cubes are the norm in the Xbox division, and I hear that office sharing is common in Bing.
    • dpark 15y ago
      Hmm. I ride the connector with an SDET in Xbox. I'll have to ask him if he's in a cube.
  • pacaro 15y ago
    Cubes (a.k.a. "Collaberative Work Environments" a.k.a. "Workplace Advantage") are becoming more common. In one case that I know far too much about they can get 150 people onto a floor that previously held 100 (at which point they are at the code limit for the width of the stairwells, which is in part determined by the number of people expected to use it for emergency egress) I've been in non-office work environments 3 times in 10 years at MS, thankfully back in my own office now...
    • dpark 15y ago
      I haven't hard anyone talking about that, but with 92K employees, I obviously don't talk to everyone. I wonder what percentage of FTEs are actually in a cube or office sharing situation, though.