Still More WordPress Drama
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
“We were unaware that Matt redirected sign-up emails until current Automattic employees contacted our support team,” a spokesperson for Blind told me, adding that they’d “never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails.”
Having Slack access, as do all WordPress.org plugin and theme authors, I can confirm community moral is in decline. Many developers have been banned from Slack for their dissension.
Related: Here’s an interesting read I came across this morning in three parts. Having interviewed with Automattic once myself nearly 15 years ago, I can confirm the interview process was somewhat lacking even back then.
- My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 1
- My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 2
- My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 3
The whole drama is like a freeway pileup I just can’t look away from…