Open floor plans are even more problematic when the R&D team shares the space with sales / marketing. In that setting only one of the teams is getting any work done, I'll leave you to guess which one.
Yes - There is less than zero thought put into open floorplan seating charts.
We had in sequential rows - Level1 support, R&D, Development. Sat like this for years.
So R&D was sandwiched between the team that was constantly on contentious urgent calls, and the dev team they ran over to ask for help.
Best open floorplan seat I ever had was in a far corner way off from most dev, sat near a trader who spent all day on the phone yakking. Just like a total storyteller kind of guy, incredible yarns were spun .. kind faded into interesting background music for me. Like leaving the History Channel on in the back. Philosophy, science, history, movies, politics.. etc.
