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> Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office.

I'm struggling to understand how an open plan office fits into this. Are the current employees happy with that? Given the choice, I would definitely get a real office with a door and enough silence to reason about code.

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There is a big debate about open plan, isn't there? I personally like working in a collaborative environment, at least within the scrum team all focussed on the same goals.

I think Pico's layout is quite good in that hardware and software engineers share the same space, but it's separated from tech support (who are on the phone a lot) and marketing and the warehouse. Sometimes it gets noisy, but no more than any other open plan I've been in.

If you come in for an interview, you'll get a tour of the building and can see whether our style is right for you :)

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