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Just have some respect for yourself - do not accept job offer if you don't get an office (unless it is a very early stage startup)

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The problem is that cuts out 99%+ of all employers.

When was the last time you interviewed someplace that gave all programmers their own office?

Plenty of places give programmers their own office. The trick is finding one that gives each programmer a separate office.

I'd be fine with this, actually. As long as there was someplace quiet and private to go when needed. I wouldn't mind if these spaces were just booths you could grab when needed. As long as there were enough to go around.

How do I use a high-powered desktop with triple heads if I have to grab a booth on demand?

I need focus and fast compile times, not a damn booth.

I'm a fan of huge/multiple monitors too. There could easily be monitors in the "booths," that part's easy. As for desktop-level compute horsepower, hmmmm....

At my workplace pretty much everything is on the network. All the important stuff and a lot of the personal, non-important stuff sits on a file server somewhere. It wouldn't be a huge jump for us to put everything on the network and make the machines dumb terminals. If you did that, you could just put high-powered desktops in each of the booths.

Any 100% wfh job interview

That office could be in the programmer's own home.

1 programmer per office is pretty sparse. We have 3-4 here where I work, and it seems to be a nice equilibrium between privacy and ease of collaboration.

Only if you're looking for a job as a CEO

At Oracle I got my own office as an intern

Yeah, but then you were at Oracle.

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