A blog about Remote work, being an Happiness Engineer, WordPress, and Customer Support
Blog posts about Automattic
The company I work for, Automattic, has an open vacation policy. What does an “open vacation policy” even mean? Before I started at Automattic, I had no idea what to expect. I had heard about how some open vacation policies end up with employees taking very little vacation time out of peer pressure. My friends thought…
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My favorite days of remote working aren’t the days when I get to work by a pool, or even when I get to stay home all day working on my couch in my favorite sweatpants (as a really strong introvert, that’s saying a whole lot there). My absolute favorite days are when I’m on a…
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I posted a ton of pictures of last year’s Grand Meetup here and posted my thoughts here. And just realized that I forgot to post them for the Grand Meetup we had back in October of 2016 (which was around 5 months ago). Wait, so what is a Grand Meetup? Automattic is a remote company, which means…
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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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Part 1: Application Process Part 2: The Interview Process (this post) Part 3: Paid Trial at Automattic If you’re interested in what I did to apply for the Happiness Engineer position, I suggest giving Part 1 a read 🙂
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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?
Read MoreYesterday I had the privilege of speaking at Women who WP, which is this wonderful meet up that gets together some amazing women and we have dinner and talk about WordPress, our stories, and what we’re learning.
Read MoreOne year ago I started my journey as a full-time employee at Automattic. Having the privilege of working on WordPress.com.
Read MoreI recently found this gem of a video. Matt Mullenweg was a guest speaker at Joomla’s World Conference in 2013, and his talk was on his story with WordPress.
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The story of how I applied to Automattic to become a Happiness Engineer and got hired.
Read MoreI’m writing this from the new WordPress.com Desktop App, which was publicly released this week… and something I’ve been obsessed with for about a month.
Read MoreWhen I started my trial at Automattic back in April… I learned about this really amazing project that was being crafted deep within the heart of Automattic, called Calypso.
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Tish Briseno 