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I had a private office pretty much the entire time I did coding for Schlumberger, though this can vary widely based on location. At the new company, it's mostly
by ufmace 13y ago
I had a private office pretty much the entire time I did coding for Schlumberger, though this can vary widely based on location. At the new company, it's mostly cubes.
I think the nature of office space is one of the problems with this. Most commercial office space seems to be set up in the open office/cube farm setup. If you wanted private offices, you'd have to pay to construct them yourself, and then wonder if it will cause trouble if you ever leave the space when whoever takes it next doesn't want it. It's much tougher to get private offices until you're big enough to be actually constructing your own buildings, or at least willing to spend money on a pricey build-out of existing office space.
- jaredsohn 13y ago>Most commercial office space seems to be set up in the open office/cube farm setup. There are exceptions. The previous startup I worked for (in SOMA) used conference rooms as two-developer private offices in our first building and gave all developers two-person private offices in the second one. I don't think the offices were chosen for the purpose of having private offices either (specifically I think the second office was chosen by the company that had just acquired us.)
- nilkn 13y agoOut of curiosity, which location was this for Schlumberger?
- ufmace 13y agoI've worked at several offices for them around Houston, including Sugar Land, Katy, and San Felipe, which appears to mostly not have private offices. A facilities guy there once told me that they actually have a total of 78 offices just in Houston.