J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Automattic (Milan) en sept. 2021
Entretien
The interview process is just as described in the Automattic site and as others reviews have confirmed:
First interview with Recruiter or applying directly; review of your application; fill in two forms with questions about your experience; then coding tests. I've failed at this point.
The coding test (Front End Engineer) is very long and it assumes you are already familiar with WordPress conventions and specially with WP plugin development.
They invite you to a GH repo, where you have to review a PR and give feedback, answer some issues related to WP security, and do some tasks to improve the code.
In theory, you should be able to do it in 6 hours, but it's impossible to do it in 6 hours if you are not familiar with WP plugin development.
If you are already familiar with WP plugins, maybe you can do it in 6 hours. But if you are not, yo will spend a lot of time doing research to find out how things are supposed to be done in WP.
I was rejected because my security audit of a WP plugin was good, but not good enough. I missed one point that happens only installing the plugin in multiple sites (something maybe trivial if you are used to develop WP plugins, but not if you work with any other platform).
They should add a disclaimer: apply only if you are a WP developer or if you want to spend days learning about WP plugin development and being rejected at the end.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- Do a Review of a PR from a junior colleague
- Find security issues related to WP Plugins
- Improve performance of a JS animation
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Automattic (Milan) en déc. 2020
Entretien
Colloquio remoto su Slack e GitHub. Il primo contatto è una chat conoscitiva abbastanza infirmale, in seguito prova codice dove non rispondono per settimane, poi ti imputano bug introdotti dai tuoi predecessori.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Che cosa faresti se trovassi che il codice legacy non è ottimizzato?