A Day in the Life of a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer

This post is part of a series describing what Automatticians do on a daily basis. You can read more posts like this by following the tag #a8cday on WordPress.com and Twitter. Hi! I’m Tish, and I work as a Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com. I get asked a lot what it means to work from home, on…

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How I became a Happiness Engineer at Automattic Part 3: Paid Trial at Automattic

Part 1: Application Process Part 2: The Interview Process Part 3: Paid Trial at Automattic (this post) What is a Trial? This is the opportunity to work at Automattic, doing the job you’re applying for. It’s fantastic because you have the opportunity to see if you’d actually like the job and gives Automattic the opportunity to see…

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The schedule of a Happiness Engineer working in live chat

When I was first hired as Trial Happiness Engineer, I was concerned about the flexibility of live chat. I imagined a live chat operator being chained to their desk all day. But since this is Automattic the pioneers of remote working, how was this possible? How was it going to work?

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A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer

I’m a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. On a daily basis it completely blows my mind that I get to work with Automattic, literally from wherever. Today wasn’t a typical day… I’m working from a rooftop in New York. Which is not at all a normal workday for me. I usually work from my desk in…

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