Even after 10 years, I'm shocked to discover that I still really enjoy going to work every day. The work is interesting, the bureaucracy is mostly kept to a minimum, and – most importantly to me – the people really care. They care about each other, our customers, and about the effects of our work on the world. I love that we have a creed and actually try to follow it. I communicate more often and more skillfully with my co-workers at this remote job than I ever did working in an office, and this has made all the difference.
As products are developed, there is always technical debt created.
If developers do not continue to refine their products, this debt accumulates, causing problems for customers and product teams alike.
Automattic's teams have a long history of shipping a v1 and then being reassigned to the next big thing, leaving unowned features throughout.
There's been some work to correct this cultural deficit, but I think there's still more to be done.
The recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. One interview via Google Meet with the recruiter, then a Slack-based chat. First task: they sent me a GitHub repo with bugs and a goal to see how many bugs I could find and fix. I passed this step. Then the t
I applied through a recruiter. The process took one week. - First interview with HR. - Technical test. The technical test was adding some requirements listed in an existing application they shared via GitHub. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the test.
I went through the first interview, which was text-based and took place on Slack. I'm all in for async communication, but found it really weird. I had no clue whether the interviewer had read or understood everything I wrote. On multiple instances, I
The recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. One interview via Google Meet with the recruiter, then a Slack-based chat. First task: they sent me a GitHub repo with bugs and a goal to see how many bugs I could find and fix. I passed this step. Then the t
I applied through a recruiter. The process took one week. - First interview with HR. - Technical test. The technical test was adding some requirements listed in an existing application they shared via GitHub. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the test.
I went through the first interview, which was text-based and took place on Slack. I'm all in for async communication, but found it really weird. I had no clue whether the interviewer had read or understood everything I wrote. On multiple instances, I