As of today we are 1,733. But that may go up soon, we are hiring aggressively to fill roles of some people who left and meet increased customer demand! https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
So, roughly 2,000 employees?
Original post: https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/
Edit: I stand corrected. OP is asking how many employees are in the WordPress "division", which I cannot find a public source for and is kind of hard to tally.
Matt said yesterday[1] that ~100 employees work on wordpress.org, one chunk of what encompasses the WordPress "division".
The person you are replying to is asking what percentage of the WordPress division, not the company-wide percent.
Matt, please, I know you're not going to listen to some random stranger, but maybe think about distancing yourself from this and getting some perspective from people that aren't as emotionally invested in this and listen to people like your lawyers, pr people, other senior management, etc.
Probably not the right way to hire a lawyer at all, frankly.
How does he expect a junior attorney to help him at all, especially one who is depending on him for his paycheck?
Here’s the job ad:
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/job/associate-general-co...
> Probably not the right way to hire a lawyer at all, frankly.
> How does he expect a junior attorney to help him at all, especially one who is depending on him for his paycheck?
Most large companies outsource the bigger stuff and anything non day-to-day (like trademark enforcement and litigation) to law firms.
Where's today's DHH, Jason Fried or Joel Spolsky?
I mean, you are attempting to destroy your competitors.
Drupal or even PHP Nuke was much better designed. I.e: Wp calls every published object post as it was designed as blog for posting.
Almost all CMS provide class oriented architecture, object caching, multilanguage, clean separation between base code, customer code and customer data, safe defaults (like all forms for commenting enabled),...