I'm a big ad agency. Silence is impossible to find, unless you start working at 7PM. Everyone here uses headphones.
Ask HN: How quiet is your startup office?
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Re: Ask HN: How quiet is your startup office?
#1212 person startup, here. It's deadly quiet. Most people are in offices, they close their door for phone calls. Headphones for music is the norm. It makes me crazy, sometimes. I get a little break because I sit near the kitchen and there's a lot of chatter when people are preparing their lunches.
I've done at-home hobbyist development for five years with the neighbors from hell revving exhaust modded beater cars 20-50x/day. I'm drooling at the words "deadly quiet". (And yes I'm leaving here at some point in the next year).
Ugh. You have my sympathy. For one who "put up" with similar circumstances for far too long, I hope you won't mind my sincere advice: Get out! Staying is a downward spiral -- I know.
Re: Ask HN: How quiet is your startup office?
#13We have about 50 people in our office. Desks are foldable tables. Seating groups are split between Product/Design, Devs, Sales and Content people. Constant chatter between product and content. Our CTO is very hands on and most people have meetings at their desks.
With that said, I have my headphones in much of the time.
Re: Ask HN: How quiet is your startup office?
#14I work on a 10 person team. We're in a coworking space that is incredibly loud
Nothing some noise-cancelling headphones and white noise can't fix :)