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The design hiring process at Automattic: a step-by-step guide
To help you navigate our hiring process, we’ve put together an overview and some practical advice on how to stand out and succeed.
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How to Be a Neurodiversity Ally
If we behave inclusively to everyone, everyone is included. Here are ten ideas to consider as you go about your day as a neurodiversity ally.
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Brie Anne Demkiw
Hangout Life
One huge advantage of remote environments: Face time is a scarce resource. This is a good thing. It makes you treat it as a valuable resource — something you have to be careful not to waste. But remote meetings still have their own set of challenges. Here are a few things I’ve learned about running…
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Rick Banister
Squad Goals
A few keys to distributed success Since becoming the lead of my team I’ve spent a fair bit of time helping my team members define career growth goals and track their progress. Everyone is different and their growth can obviously take many forms—from skill-building to efficiency to leadership. That said, I have noticed a few…
THE GOLDEN GIRLS — Season 2 — Pictured: (l-r) Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereux, Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo, Bea Arthur as Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Betty White as Rose Nylund– Photo by: Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank -
Erin Casali
Organization Experiments in Progress
When I started my career in technology I thought the best thing ever was the ability to make things work, so I started learning multiple programming language and building things. I then realized people using my software were having problems, so my next guess was to learn graphic design. Better, but something was still off:…
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Erin Casali
Can positive feedback be used in place of negative feedback?
Feedback is difficult, especially because we don’t take it as a skill to be learned but we expect everyone to be already good at that. Even more, when we say feedback we often refer to negative feedback only. This is misleading because it doesn’t just ignore positive feedback, but also assumes that it’s the right…
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Rick Banister
Remote Leadership
I believe remote work is the future. I’ve been working as a designer for Automattic for three years and I worked from home half time the two years prior. Before that I did freelance work on nights and weekends at my dining room table. Working remotely allowed my wife and I to move from Philadelphia…
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
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