   Where are the coders located in your company?
  I'm curious to hear how other companies are organized when it comes to programmers.Are all the programmers located in an office/open landscape in a programmer team?Do you mix teams with programmers and designers (and or artists)?Do everyone have their own office?  Open landscape?  semi large offices?How big is the coder team?What are the biggest benifit you see with your setup?  What do you think could improve it?In my case:I've fond that both has its cons.. If you are close to the designers it really helps in develeopment speeds and you can get instant feedback.. aka "Is this what you wanted?"If you're close to coders its always easy to get technical help.. Ie, "this keeps crashing and i've tried everything I know.. Can you help me take a look?"We've done a bit of both, but right now all the coders are located in a kind of open landscape'ish room.  I've actually requested beeing moved closer to system designers for a while now while writing code on some core systems.   
Quote:Original post by _Kami_Are all the programmers located in an office/open landscape in a programmer team?Do you mix teams with programmers and designers (and or artists)?Do everyone have their own office?  Open landscape?  semi large offices?How big is the coder team?We're set up with the team for each project in a room, so they can all talk to each other easily. That means that the programmers are split across a few rooms, but we don't need to talk to programmers on other projects as often as we need to talk to other members of the team on the same project. And it's not that hard to get up and walk through to the next room.   ;  In the basement, near the central heating system.   ;Quote:Original post by ToolmakerIn the basement, near the central heating system.Really? They're next to the AC units here.   ;Quote:Original post by PromitQuote:Original post by ToolmakerIn the basement, near the central heating system.Really? They're next to the AC units here.Nobody seems to like us programmers around here, so we got put near the furnace for the central heating system. It's probably a hint...   ;  You should give them a hint back.  Coders at worst make lousy artists and designers (at best doing a lot better than lousy).Neither an artist nor a designer is as likely to make code that functions in any shape or form hehe   ;Quote:Original post by ToolmakerQuote:Original post by PromitQuote:Original post by ToolmakerIn the basement, near the central heating system.Really? They're next to the AC units here.Nobody seems to like us programmers around here, so we got put near the furnace for the central heating system. It's probably a hint...Oh wait, you're serious? I was making stuff up.   ;  We used to have all of our programmers together on one floor with management while the artist, designers and QA were on a different floor.  Lately though we've been trying to group all programmers, artist, and designers that work on the same projects closer together so that they don't have to run as far when they need to talk to each other.Some of the directors have offices, but for the most part everyone has cubes that they work in.  It works out pretty well overall, but since we develop most of the tools we use in house across all of our products the communication on tools development has been slacking a little bit.   ;  Where i am now, everyone is on one floor w/ ponie cubicle quads.  There's about 100 people total.  The programmers / scripters / designers are in one wing of the building and the QA / artists are on the other.In each wing people are kinda clumped together (like "most of the guys over here are designers" or "most of the guys over here are on the physics programming team"), but it isnt a hard rule and theres a little mixing going on.The last place i worked i was on a much smaller team.  Us coders were in one room, the artists were in a diff room, you had to go outside and walk up the stairs to talk to em.  The producer hung out with us in our room though in a little mini office.   ;  I sit on my couch when I program [cool][cool].   