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(disclaimer, I work at Scopely) I don't quite understand what you mean by saying that it's an "office for sales people". Agreed, it's a bit crowded! I think w
by mbthomas 14y ago
(disclaimer, I work at Scopely) I don't quite understand what you mean by saying that it's an "office for sales people". Agreed, it's a bit crowded! I think we doubled (or more?) our team's size since we moved into this space. But other than that, the type of office suites me and most developers quite well. We are working on acquiring more office space and making dedicated "quite rooms" for people to work in with less distraction.
- mixmastamyk 14y agoIt would be no big deal to check email in such an environment, but hard problems... uggh. Do you allow employees to work at home (even go to the library) part of the day/week? This would mitigate things I'd guess. Back to the point: It's well known (now) that interruptions destroy developer productivity. "Human Task Switches Considered Harmful" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html The original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects... Aimed at the boss: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
- rdouble 14y agoFor better or worse, every startup has an open plan office like this. The new breed of 22 year old software engineers do not appear to be negatively affected. Joel and Peopleware need to do a re-assessment using younger people who grew up with 24/7 internet.
- mixmastamyk 14y agoInteresting, though I'd be surprised that humans have evolved much in 15 years. I have worked in such an environment though and there were huge costs (and true a few benefits). What I found though was that the hard work got done from 9pm-12am over the VPN ... a recipe for eventual burnout.