Comment by Marco Alka on "How does your development environment look like?"

CommentHow does your development environment look like?

Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Mar 7, 2019

(^image not my actual work place, since I am on a project area at the moment)

It's called "Inspiring Working Conditions". Big, open offices, big coffee lounges. You don't have a dedicated seat anymore, but just get your laptop from a locker and sit wherever. There are many couches and comfy places. Meeting rooms cannot be booked and are free-standing glass rooms in the middle of the building. Also there are many clean, colorful elements and leisure activities for breaks (like pool tables, ping pong, and I heard they set up a PlayStation somewhere...). While at the moment it great to go to the office and do your work, team work on projects is a bit bad. They are working on fixing that, though!

Here's a short article about my office with many pictures

tl;dr: It's an explosion of millenialism 😂

Ramiro Berrelleza

Co-founder & CEO at Okteto

Mar 15, 2019

Interesting. How do you like the open seating setup?

Marco Alka

Eddy Tan it has its ups and downs. I like the clean desks and being able where to sit all the time. I can just go somewhere else whenever I feel like it or need to, which is great! However, sometimes it is difficult to find an open spot in the area where I want to sit, so that's definitely a downside.

By the way, most people start to have habit-desks. These are desks which they occupy all the time by habit - if they are fast enough. I have several of those, depending on where I sit 🙂

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