I'm upvoting this for the title and closing paragraph:
“Facebook is paying 40-50% more than other places,” Spolsky said at the GeekWire conference. “Which is usually a sign developers don’t want to work there.”
I abhor open floor plans. As a grad student, I have to share a room with several people (all of whom I respect), but we all unintentionally distract one another in some form every day, and it slows us all down!
We programmers all know the cost of context switching: any question asked, any joke, any comment, any interruption made during a programming session is killing productivity.
I am as fast alone at my side project as at my (open space) office, despite the fact that I only spend 4 times less time.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 34.9 ms ] threadI abhor open floor plans. As a grad student, I have to share a room with several people (all of whom I respect), but we all unintentionally distract one another in some form every day, and it slows us all down!
I was on a sales rep recently who had to sit at her desk in an open floor plan, I couldn't hear a damn thing.
I am as fast alone at my side project as at my (open space) office, despite the fact that I only spend 4 times less time.