Office Space

September 7, 2012 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Last year, we gave you a chance to see a day in the life of an Opera employee. A few months ago, we changed our location and got a new office. We now present to you a sneak peek into Opera's new office life. Enjoy

Welcome to Opera's new office located in Nydalen, Oslo, Norway!

If you need a break from work, the surrounding area is a lovely place to relax.

Yes, of course you can swim here!

This is Erlend Drevdal Hausken. He's responsible for marketing and communications at Opera. He enjoys hiking, romantic comedies and red wine.

Sh*t just got real: System administration. Notice all the stuff. That's a lot of stuff.

No desk is complete until you have at least three geeky items. In this case: Duff beer, Nintendo Mints and a stuffed Yoshi toy.

Here we see Rian (who works in finance) doing some super important work.

Christian works as a user interface designer for Opera. He's working on something. Not sure why the evil grin.

Some of you might recognize Andreas from the My Opera development team. His interests are gym, tan and laundry.

Meet Oleg from Ukraine. He's famous for awesome interface and web designs, eating huge lunches and overall being a good guy. He's also active on Twitter.

This is Hans. Usually, he codes brilliant lines of code for the addons catalog, but here he is busy... doing... something else.

Being a developer at Opera requires massive headsets. Øyvind's headset is among the biggest one at Opera and he is not afraid to show it off. Go Øyvind!

Anne-Lise and Esteban entangled in a discussion over a technical problem.

Esteban's solution to any code problem: MORE COWBELL!

Espen Myhre showing off how 3D browsing should be done: With 3D glasses.

The nerdiest superhero ever: Captain Drupal.

"Just look at the picture! He has to be his father!"

Espen Myhre is not familiar with tab stacking.

Cosimo is one of many extremely talented engineers at Opera. What makes him one of the best is that he has a little blanket for his keyboard.

Under the blanket we find a keyboard that definitely has a feeling of epic.

Petter Nilsen shows off a new Opera build with a touch user interface.

Drag. Drop. Looking good!

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TamilFriday, September 7, 2012 3:03:36 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Good.gif -
Nicolas MendozaFriday, September 7, 2012 3:09:01 PM
Nice
Martin KadlecFriday, September 7, 2012 3:17:03 PM
I see him, I see him everywhere (if you know what i mean).
JarradFriday, September 7, 2012 3:17:45 PM
looks like there are more than a couple of linux installs there.. good to see
Richard ArthurFriday, September 7, 2012 3:18:07 PM
I would work to this when i got 18
CristianFriday, September 7, 2012 3:29:17 PM
WOW, beautiful offices.
d4rkn1ghtFriday, September 7, 2012 3:37:02 PM
mubaidrFriday, September 7, 2012 3:40:31 PM
Charles SchlossFriday, September 7, 2012 3:40:33 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -
Giulia MariaFriday, September 7, 2012 4:04:21 PM
cool!
alekksanderFriday, September 7, 2012 4:28:13 PM
Very cool... we need more like this!
where is Erlends couch from? i want one!
DeyanFriday, September 7, 2012 5:19:38 PM
some parks, some recreation... some great place for great people
Md Nizam uddin NayanFriday, September 7, 2012 5:27:09 PM
Very nice photo. Thanks opera.
MagnoFriday, September 7, 2012 5:37:38 PM
Very Cool!!
Phillip Robert O'ConnerFriday, September 7, 2012 5:38:36 PM
Nice Digs And Pic.Is There Anyway I Come Over There And Relax (And Play) Over There.
Jurriaan RuitenbergFriday, September 7, 2012 5:45:56 PM
Props to Øyvind for his mastering regular expressions book. No developer can live without
CoyoteeFriday, September 7, 2012 6:17:55 PM
17 Ron Swansons (Some people have all the fun)
ondrejandrejFriday, September 7, 2012 7:09:33 PM

I realize you are using KDE! So am I!
Yeni SetiawanFriday, September 7, 2012 7:26:18 PM
Awesome! The best part is blank keyboard
BrowseFriday, September 7, 2012 8:00:52 PM
great, pics so refreshing
D1sasterp1eceFriday, September 7, 2012 9:07:29 PM
Gosh, I dream of working for Opera someday! It looks like nothing short of awesome stuff!
/\/\€€TFriday, September 7, 2012 9:08:02 PM
Going for Software engineering. Wait for me, Opera; I'll come to you!
Richard ArthurFriday, September 7, 2012 9:21:58 PM
Sweeet some think pads
Brian Francis PretoriusFriday, September 7, 2012 9:50:42 PM
Just don't spill coffee on that keyboard, anyone doing that would be in serious trouble.
Nice photos, Thanks.
Kr0pr0XSaturday, September 8, 2012 1:12:55 AM
what can i say??? as cool & awesome as the browser!!! love the way u work!!! xD
btw, i liked Cosimo's desktop a lot and the keyboard is uber awesome!!!
ErikSaturday, September 8, 2012 3:18:24 AM
very interesting and cool pics ! thank you for sharing, Opera is really great and has style... Øyvind's chair and headset and Cosimo's blank keyboard for me

go Opera !
Jorge EduardoSaturday, September 8, 2012 5:12:03 AM
I want a big "O" for my laptop
earth01Saturday, September 8, 2012 6:42:15 AM
What's the keyboard's brand ? (the black one with the red escape key)
Nikki StrømsnesSaturday, September 8, 2012 11:54:13 AM
@earth01: Pretty sure that is a Das Keyboard. You can have it configured with a red escape key and green WASD. http://store.daskeyboard.com/
ir193Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:11:45 PM
"doing some super important work"
what I can see is a Solitaire
Fathima Rifqa GhaffarSaturday, September 8, 2012 5:43:16 PM
Pretty COOL!!!
xpghostedSaturday, September 8, 2012 7:06:28 PM
is everyone using gvim?
Mustafa OğuzSaturday, September 8, 2012 7:59:40 PM
We can call this blog post as "Opera Family Album"
CarolSaturday, September 8, 2012 9:20:00 PM
Very nice! Everyone looks so comfy in new surroundings.
YongShunSunday, September 9, 2012 4:52:10 AM
whatda fuq is with the keyboard?!?!?!
JohnWilliamGodwardSunday, September 9, 2012 6:55:07 AM
Beautiful landscape but I think it's nice to have some summer flowers in the garden.
QuHnoSunday, September 9, 2012 9:53:38 AM
Petter and the mirror of darkness (on the right side). I wonder what questions he asks
Vasudevan MSunday, September 9, 2012 10:13:20 AM
Thats an amazing place to work.

For those who want to know which keyboard that is, My best guess would be a Filco Majestouch2 Ninja Tenkeyless. Amazing stuff.
virtualskySunday, September 9, 2012 1:47:31 PM
That's wonderful! So, where's the Commodore 64 lab?
Ruarí ØdegaardSunday, September 9, 2012 8:17:13 PM
Ha, I see myself in one of those pictures. I am a complete blurry blob of course but that just means it is a good picture of me.
RisantoMonday, September 10, 2012 3:53:52 AM
Wow .. Nice
antpmMonday, September 10, 2012 10:16:05 AM
wowwww....
nice....
i likes this.....
alekksanderMonday, September 10, 2012 12:11:23 PM
seriously guys, where can i get a couch like that?

there is a fire truck next to Your office at google street view. What happen there? puppy drown?
I need a nameMonday, September 10, 2012 3:08:58 PM
http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/albums/12588812/_MG_0128.JPG
I want it

http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/albums/12588812/_MG_0082.jpg
Very important person do a important job , anybody see how tabs does he open ?

Rian (who works in finance) doing some super important work.
play this game is a hard-work (really)
milcelTuesday, September 11, 2012 2:49:28 AM
Nice oooooooooooooooooooo
logytechTuesday, September 11, 2012 5:44:19 PM
just curiosity...
what happens on old Opera HQ Basement?
Sold it?

BTW good lucks and have a very nice outside day bro....

How big this area is it?

Edit:

When i see the Google Map, I see it now it is so big !
I hope I can works there because it is so relaxing.....

From Malaysia!
yop plaTuesday, September 11, 2012 10:09:40 PM
nice
logytechWednesday, September 12, 2012 12:45:17 AM
i see almost Dev teams have two monitor. why Dev teams can not make a Opera properly support for 2 plus more monitor?

Strange right? the other browser support it the long ago. i hope new office can make more brilliant browser.
Well done have a new place to works!
Cosimo StrepponeWednesday, September 12, 2012 5:42:40 AM
Originally posted by vasuwrath:

For those who want to know which keyboard that is, My best guess would be a Filco Majestouch2 Ninja Tenkeyless. Amazing stuff.

Bingo! For everyone wondering, my keyboard is indeed a Filco Majestouch2 TenKeyless (with no numeric keypad) Ninja (with blank keys). I also customised it with a red ESC keycap, and replaced the Windows keys with no Windows logo :-)

For the real estimators of mechanical keyboards, I'll say that it's equipped with red cherry keys, the less noisy among the mechanical (I think). It took a while to choose this keyboard, and geekhack.org helped me :-)
Diego Schild SmithsWednesday, September 12, 2012 3:53:30 PM
Wow! A VERY nice place.

And Espen Myhre, do you use Orkut? o.O