Culture, what culture?
Culture, what culture?
- Remote work is good.
- Work is impactful, as WP powers a lot of the web.
- Small teams and nice people.
- Leadership is increasing pressure to deliver to unrealistic deadlines.
- Engineers are responsible for everything; leadership takes no accountability for failures and engineers are blamed instead.
- There is no project management; engineers are expected to do this.
- Design doesn't really know what to do; engineers are expected to do this.
- There is no clear roadmap from leadership; engineers are expected to do this. (Seriously, if you "work on the wrong thing" you'll be fired.)
- Arbitrary performance metrics are used, such as lines of code and PR count, compared to other teams working on different things.
- Management overrules team leads on IC feedback, calling it "alignment."
Stop putting everything on engineers and fix the culture of fear caused by this horrible new feedback system. Nobody wants to speak up for fear of being fired. This is unforgivable.
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Call with HR. Invited to the Slack group where the technical test is shared. Needs to work on the test based on their instructions and commit it to their GitHub.
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They don't really hire for positions. Rather, when you apply, you join a 'talent pool' where they may or may not get back to you. It's not really nice applying to such a void, but they do state that on their careers page.
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United KingdomJanuary 1, 2024They don't really hire for positions. Rather, when you apply, you join a 'talent pool' where they may or may not get back to you. It's not really nice applying to such a void, but they do state that on their careers page.
