I wouldn't take a job in that room.

They seem to want to make it a comfortable place to "hang out" but that doesn't fit well with complex algorithms. A thought could take a long while to get to the point. If I am to be interupted, I would at least want to narrow the field to other programmers... but having any old Joe showing up while he doesn't have any sales calls to make should be unnacceptable.

The game room idea is a good one but it should be it's own room. Maybe they don't want their programmers to be able to generate vast amounts of cool, well behaved, easily maintainable code. That's what I always set out to do... fill a library with good tools for the next guy to use.

Thanks.

In reply to RE: RE: A quiet place to code... by el-moe
in thread A quiet place to code... by el-moe

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