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I've worked there for 5 years. The office does seem loud when walking through it, but not once have I felt that the noise interrupted me. Now, that may not be

I've worked there for 5 years. The office does seem loud when walking through it, but not once have I felt that the noise interrupted me. Now, that may not be true for everyone, but we hire new people all the time, and I've never heard anyone raise it as a complaint (although I have seen many comments like yours over the years from people who have seen pictures of our office). A big reason why I think people don't get distracted is the pairing. Pairs do a good job of keeping each other focused.

michaelwww 14y ago
From your site "As developers, we generally like to work across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, iOS & Android" Pair programming probably works when you are hooking things up with glue code for the most part, that's my best guess. That's the only case where I could see it working for me and it would probably be kind of fun and interesting. I can't imagine doing anything that required a lot of sustained concentration however, unless your engineers are doing that when they get home from work and find some quiet time (probably.)