Automattic trial data and employee retention

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9 pointskrogsgard3 comments

I still think it's weird.

0 - they claim this can be done around a fulltime job, but some people in the thread disagree from experience. Plus, I have a very fulltime job, and particularly come winter, I am busy every single weekend. Your job < snowboarding. In fact, your job <<< snowboarding.

1 - $25/hour is almost worse than $0; it's a fraction of my consulting rate.

2 - I, like many engineers, am not hurting for job opportunities at the moment.

Interesting concept to implement company-wide. It's much like having an intern and then giving them a full-time offer afterwards.

Automattic is the first non-freelance job for many of their employees, but most of them are hardly entry-level like an intern. It's pretty widely considered the premiere place to work in the WordPress ecosystem, given they maintain WordPress.com and their employees are responsible for a considerable amount of the development to the .org project as well.

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