Yes, I would really like to hear from people that program in this type of environment. It strikes me as a madhouse. On the other hand, I have worked in labs on

Yes, I would really like to hear from people that program in this type of environment. It strikes me as a madhouse. On the other hand, I have worked in labs on things like embedded computers, and sometimes having a lot of people around really helped you zero in on a difficult problem consisting of code touching more modules than one mind could ever keep track of. But by and large it is pretty tiring, and extremely hard to do anything that does not require constant communication. I don't know - when I viewed those pictures I just got the sense of slaves or prisoners, shackled in their galley^H^H^H^H^H^H workstation, looking longingly out windows to the outside world, etc. I recognize I am just looking at a few photos and my impression is likely to be completely wrong.