Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

Post by DanBC » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 9:48 AM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #241

mindcrime wrote: post #148

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a) my desk faces the wall, for fewer visual distractions I'm sitting here feeling stunned that anybody could ever want their desk facing a wall, as the implication (in terms of any "open plan" environment) is that their back is facing, well, nothing. IOW, somebody can walk up behind you unnoticed. Me personally, I hate that with a passion. I'd pay money to have my desk facing out with my back to the wall, just so nob…

> a) my desk faces the wall, for fewer visual distractions Might as well sit in a box then. :)

Post by orange_bear » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 4:16 PM UTC

colanderman wrote: post #221

orange_bear wrote: post #129

Thanks for the info! At my last workplace (Apple), the department had brought in a ton of H1B visa workers from body shops and I'm skeptical about if it was legal. They were all crammed elbow-to-elbow in bullpen cubicles. As a contractor at the time, I sat on a bench in the hallway because there were no free bullpen cubes!! The bathroom urinals always had pools of urine beneath them, due (in part) to excessive use. T…

> The toilet seats were always urinated on. I don't get this; this happened at my workplace too, until we installed a coded lock on the restroom (which was otherwise accessible to anyone in the building). What kind of boor has a professional job but can't piss in a foot-diameter hole and is too lazy to clean up when he does so?

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 12:04 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #237

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Post by dang » Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 2:43 AM UTC

orange_bear wrote: post #129

Thanks for the info! At my last workplace (Apple), the department had brought in a ton of H1B visa workers from body shops and I'm skeptical about if it was legal. They were all crammed elbow-to-elbow in bullpen cubicles. As a contractor at the time, I sat on a bench in the hallway because there were no free bullpen cubes!! The bathroom urinals always had pools of urine beneath them, due (in part) to excessive use. T…

Post by giaour » Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 6:05 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #28

On the general question of open vs. private offices, my views have tempered over time. The first time I worked in an open office, I hated it. But I've come to realize that a lot depends on the layout of the office and that there are better and worse ways to configure one. The first case -- the one I hated -- had a) long rows of desks, b) bright overhead fluorescent lights, c) a lot of noise due to being in a large ro…