I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Automattic (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
The interview was composed of a brief 30 minutes introduction chat, thereafter a live chat simulation.You must prepare yourself with forums questions because they'll ask you two of most asked questions of WordPress.com.
The interview was through slack, you had to walk them through a chat customer service interaction. First you are given a take home issues to solve and send on how to fix or actually fix.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On a scale of 1 to 10 what is your experience with using WordPress.
I applied online. I interviewed at Automattic in Dec 2025
Interview
The interview was not bad, but not the best setup for me as someone living with anxiety. I stuttered a few times, though I know and I'm sure of what I wanted to say.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Automattic
Interview
They reach out through Linkedin. They offered a really low budget but I needed a job so I wanted to move forward. Then they sent a form that basically evaluates my intention.
Afterwards, they sent an online assessment like a cognitive ability test with 50 question in 15 minutes, ordinary stuff. Plus an English test, 12 questions, 1 min each. After that, I got rejected.
Probably, either I have really low IQ or I can't even write in English even though I have been working for US/EU companies for years and I have a lot of hands-on experience along with industry-recognized certificates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you interested in working for Automattic and the Happiness Engineer role? etc
