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I worked at Microsoft from 2005-2017 and mostly had a private office during that entire period. There were some teams that I joined in the later years that were
by allenu 3y ago
I worked at Microsoft from 2005-2017 and mostly had a private office during that entire period. There were some teams that I joined in the later years that were more "startupish" that worked in open spaces, which I really didn't like, and you could see the company moving to that model in the mid-2010s.
Having a private office spoiled me as well, although I had come from companies that had cubicles. There was nothing like being able to close the door and turn up your music while you were coding. Nowadays, everyone is out in the open with headphones on, of course.
- sgerenser 3y agoI worked for Microsoft (not in Redmond) in 2020-2022, and remember seeing on Yammer posts about “Hey look, we’re turning these old abandoned offices (nobody wants to work in a private office anymore, amirite?) into [touchdown spaces/mini conference rooms/storage areas]!” I don’t know if it was all private offices, but the general feeling was that private offices were going away. Moot point for us as we were a satellite office that never had private offices to begin with.
- vxNsr 3y agowait, you guys actually used yammer????
- fakedang 3y agoAnd here I was wondering why Microsoft paid so much for it. Well this answers it.
- sgerenser 3y agoYeah, Yammer was used pretty extensively within Microsoft. I didn’t use it much, but if you were at Microsoft but not based in Redmond, it was probably the best way to keep up with what was going on company-wide (for those that actually cared).