Building used to mostly belong to Intel's legal department and they got moved out during some sort of reorganization or restructuring. Intel decided it was going to sell the building, so they moved everyone else out. Then they changed their minds about selling. They've switched that decision a number of times since.
It seems our team figured it would be a good place to work undisturbed and was better than any of the other spaces they got offered, so that's where we ended up. Its mostly good in that we're left to ourselves to get the project done, and we've been told we get to work far more autonomously than most Intel projects, but its not so good in that we're sometimes forgotten out there and we have to keep reminding them that we're supposed to have infrastructure support.
One nice perk is that if I need to get away from the noise to read through some tricky code or to puzzle out a problem (I think best in silence), its not hard to find a corner where you won't be disturbed.
Nice to see some photos of your adventures in California! I definitely like the second hotel room better and would imagine you like it better too?
It was kind of spooky seeing Intel looking so empty but it must be handy to have the peace and quiet to work in, especially when you're working on complex code, etc.
Yes, the newer hotel room is much nicer. I hadn't realized how much it was bothering me in the first place that I had no where to store anything, so it was impossible to keep the old place tidy.
And yeah, no one had told me I'd be working in a 90% empty building, but I've worked in stranger places. I'm told that the team will probably have to vacate in a year or so, when Intel finally decides what its doing with the place, but I'm not looking that far ahead right now.
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Date: 2008-09-14 04:03 am (UTC)Speaking of working, why is so much of that portion of Intel deserted? Changing fortunes? Changing projects? Both? Or something else altogether?
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Date: 2008-09-14 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 07:10 am (UTC)It seems our team figured it would be a good place to work undisturbed and was better than any of the other spaces they got offered, so that's where we ended up. Its mostly good in that we're left to ourselves to get the project done, and we've been told we get to work far more autonomously than most Intel projects, but its not so good in that we're sometimes forgotten out there and we have to keep reminding them that we're supposed to have infrastructure support.
One nice perk is that if I need to get away from the noise to read through some tricky code or to puzzle out a problem (I think best in silence), its not hard to find a corner where you won't be disturbed.
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Date: 2008-09-14 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 07:26 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing! ^_^
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:59 am (UTC)It was kind of spooky seeing Intel looking so empty but it must be handy to have the peace and quiet to work in, especially when you're working on complex code, etc.
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:01 pm (UTC)And yeah, no one had told me I'd be working in a 90% empty building, but I've worked in stranger places. I'm told that the team will probably have to vacate in a year or so, when Intel finally decides what its doing with the place, but I'm not looking that far ahead right now.