Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men

As I've been trying to work at smaller and smaller startups, this is one of my litmus tests. Seeing cube (or worse, "hard" office) walls, without an obvious excuse[1] tells me there's something terribly wrong with the culture. Sadly, this still happens.

ETA: The worst example I've personally experienced is where everyone had cubicles with half-height walls, so we could see each other but still feel segregated. The only office was for the CEO, who live hundreds of miles away and was only there half the time (a Really Bad Sign in and of itself).

[1] Something like "we're just squatting in the downstairs neighbor's space while our loft is fumigated for neckties and status reports."