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I'd like to find a non-open-office environment, but every single place I interview has them. Is there any way to find non-open-office environments? If there w
by fsk 11y ago
I'd like to find a non-open-office environment, but every single place I interview has them.
Is there any way to find non-open-office environments? If there was a list of companies without open offices, I'd apply to every one on the list.
I'm definining "not an open office" as either offices for everyone (best) or team rooms of <4 people. Even cubicles would be an improvement. (and you know things are bad when cubicles seem like a luxurious environment)
- sapek 11y ago(Most of) Microsoft.
- fsk 11y agoI thought Microsoft was moving away from "every programmer gets his own office"?
- existencebox 11y agoMicrosoftie chiming in: Open offices "are the future" here. Some coworkers in other orgs still have single offices, but this is mostly legacy, unfortunately. You could probably get on a team that has single offices, but it'd be a dart throw, and you'd have iffy guarantees as to how long it'll last.
- fsk 11y agoI live in NYC, and moving to Seattle or California is not an option for me right now.
- frostmatthew 11y agoNothing more than anectdata to offer but you may have better luck at larger/older tech companies. At VMware (at least in my location) most devs have a shared office of two per office, which I think is a good compromise between cost and productivity. A friend of mine at Oracle had a private office. Also, FogCreek/StackExchange has private offices http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-i...
- fsk 11y agoI applied to Fog Creek/Stackoverflow, and didn't even get a phone interview. They're the only example I know about, a business that has private offices and publishes articles about how awesome it is. I'm starting to think that the only way I'll ever get my own office is to bootstrap my own business.