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Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and…

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Dan Knauss

Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and Michelle Ames from GiveWP have built Underrepresented in Tech, a tool intended to highlight underrepresented people's skills and specialties first and foremost as a hiring or recruiting factor. Explaining how this project got started,…

A new study from North Carolina…

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Brian Krogsgard

A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft discovered that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions actually test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent…

Trouble at Longreads

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Brian Krogsgard
We don't often talk about employment issues at Post Status. Good and bad stories about WordPress workplaces abound. Why single out this one? It is a very public issue, and it has to do with one of the largest employers in our space — one often cited as a great place to work: Automattic. That's why I believe it merits deeper consideration.

Joe Howard wrote what I consider…

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Dan Knauss

Joe Howard wrote what I consider to be a must-read if you have input in your company's hiring process — how to access a more diverse pool of job candidates. Joe lists some job boards he used during the last…

Automattic Invests in New Vector “One…

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Dan Knauss

Automattic Invests in New Vector "One thing WordPress and Matrix.org have in common is a strong, abiding belief in the open web, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving towards walled gardens" — and that's why Automattic…

“Trust, Growth, Inclusion: A Study of…

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Dan Knauss

"Trust, Growth, Inclusion: A Study of Women Engineers' Job-Search Priorities" is a whitepaper recently published by Automattic with the results of a user research study launched by their engineering hiring team. 👩‍🚀 The goal of the study was for Automattic…

Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg, two…

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Brian Krogsgard

Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg, two well-known designers, have joined the Automattic Design team. Their hiring follows the recent announcement of Jeffrey Zeldman joining the Automattic "Special Projects" team.

Taking a new product from concept to launch

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Brian Krogsgard
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…
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