Halcyon days are over.
Halcyon days are over.
Incredible people, excellent benefits, functional remote-first environment.
Unstable leadership, overflowing workload, unfair weight on the shoulders of plebeians.
Take responsibility and be accountable for the success of the business rather than dumping it on your subordinates.
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Slack chat. They like to have anonymous IMs, supposedly to eliminate bias. Then they said if I passed this, I would be given some tests. If I passed those, I could work for them for $25 per hour for three to eight weeks before they decided if they w
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They sent me a document with instructions to install a new WP site on WordPress.com and then import a pre-designed site. There were about 10 questions/problems to work through. The task required that I didn't fix the issues, but explain how I would
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Worth the wait! I totally understand why the hiring process took so long. The entire hiring process is text-based. Yes! It's unusual, but I know Automattic has its purpose for doing that. That is their way to see if the candidate would be a good fit
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New York, New York, United StatesJuly 1, 2019Slack chat. They like to have anonymous IMs, supposedly to eliminate bias. Then they said if I passed this, I would be given some tests. If I passed those, I could work for them for $25 per hour for three to eight weeks before they decided if they w
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United StatesJune 1, 2022They sent me a document with instructions to install a new WP site on WordPress.com and then import a pre-designed site. There were about 10 questions/problems to work through. The task required that I didn't fix the issues, but explain how I would
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PhilippinesJuly 19, 2021Worth the wait! I totally understand why the hiring process took so long. The entire hiring process is text-based. Yes! It's unusual, but I know Automattic has its purpose for doing that. That is their way to see if the candidate would be a good fit
