I never went to one of their offices. Probably boring office park vibes. Unlike the space donut and amusement parks it sounds like Apple and Google workers require to crank leetcode
It was almost. I used to work in MPK17 for Sun. There were some cubicles here and there but it was mostly offices from what I recall. It was a far cry from the open air cafeteria style seating when I interviewed there later in 2017 for Facebook.
It was the same at the Santa Clara Sun campus even after the Oracle acquisition (referred to by some as “Snoracle”). Mostly offices and some cubicles here and there.
So what other software companies have private offices?
In addition to Stack Exchange, Microsoft was mentioned.
When I worked as a developer at Carnegie Mellon, I had an office shared with one or two other people (which was a nice perk, given the pay was much lower than industry).
Reminds me of the days at the Sun offices in Santa Clara back in 2004. One personal office, two top of the line Sun workstations with 21 inch monitors, an additional windows PC if required. One big whiteboard and two phones. Damn, get into your office, shut the door and get on with your work. It felt like your own personal control room :).
They're uncommon nowadays, but Sun Microsystems [1] and Microsoft [2] had them. Apparently Microsoft is replacing them with open office designs these days though. FogCreek [3] is adamant about private offices.
The last place I worked where I got a private office (and probably the last place I ever will) was the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, a federally-funded R&D corporation. Level AC-5 and above got solo offices, AC-4's had to share.
Don't nearly all Microsoft employees have offices? Every building I've been to (I can probably name off about 30 of them) had employees with offices. Can you name the buildings where employees don't have offices?
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