The first couple of interview steps are a low pressure slack chat, followed by a technical take-home test. I found the interview process to be slow, confusing and inconsistent. My interviewer would sometimes go as long as 2 weeks between responses, which made it hard to have a very engaging conversation. I actually enjoyed the initial slack chat screen. It was a great low-pressure way to demonstrate how I function in a remote environment, and I was able to play music and be more myself than I usually am in an interview. However, it became clear that the company has no process for hiring for javascript skills specifically. The take home test consisted of a broken WordPress plugin written entirely in PHP, with the simple instruction of "make it better." It was such a non-sequitor as I was applying for Javascript, and PHP was nowhere in the job description. I was able to hack my way through it enough to at least get it working and up to internal code style standards. I was asked a few followup questions, to which I responded in a general way of opening new conversation. I got no response for followup. Then after a few weeks of silence I was told they would pass on my candidacy because I haven't contributed to open source projects much in the past. Overall I found the Automattic to be disorganized, and I was never given the opportunity to actually demonstrate my technical acumen and how I could actually serve the company. If the hiring experience is any indication of how they run the company, than frankly I am happy to pass on the opportunity anyways.

- Was mostly done on slack - There was a take home assignment that should be finished within a week - After the take home there'll be a review of the codebase by an engineer