Was once the best place to work
Was once the best place to work
Remote-first, great benefits, awesome leads and engineers, interesting products.
Automattic used to be the gold star for remote work and company culture, but now it's a culture of fear, instability, and distrust. Leadership blames ICs and team leads for what is really a lack of solid leadership and vision from the top.
ICs and team leads are tasked with driving profit, but are not empowered to make the changes necessary to do so. Matt-bombs destroy promising efforts that could lead to drastic improvements of a8c products, and whatever morale is left is quickly snuffed out by Matt-meltdowns, both publicly and privately.
The CEO should step down and hire someone else to do his role. I think he's lost his way.
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