Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process
Matt used to put in the wordpress.com page headers something like &quot;if you are looking at this you should apply&quot;<p>But that was when he only had like 12 people working for him.<p>(edit: it&#x27;s still there on every page served a decade later)<p>Look at just a handful of people in 2005 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20051223160551&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20051223160551&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic....</a><p>a dozen in 2006 <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20061225011025&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20061225011025&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic....</a><p>to the insanity of today  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic.com&#x2F;map&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automattic.com&#x2F;map&#x2F;</a><p>and still Automattic is mostly a one-trick pony, it&#x27;s 100% WordPress all the way down. Even when Matt had a chance to have a second program with bbPress and fix many of the nightmares with wordpress, he doubled-back and had them rewrite it into an insanely bloated plugin for wordpress instead.