Great async process. Everything happens on Slack and the feedback loop is great. They give you feedback! Async remote culture looks really nice, this is where they shine. A few red flags: you're expected to do customer service 1 week per year. The interview is very long. You need to work 40 hours which is paid at a very low hourly rate. At the end they got a useless task done, I got less than 1/5 my hourly rate. I think it would make more sense to do an actual valuable project together and pay it market rate, instead of doing an exercise. The code project you're given is a old project and it's pretty bad - which is fine, it can be part of the exercise. The solution you're guided towards though is using a library from Automattic (basically Redux with some extra functionalities and little documentation) and, frankly, it's like coding frontend in 2015. I definitely wouldn't want to maintain that. That made me worry about the code quality inside Automattic and frankly it was enough to make me not want to join. It felt like the interview was going well but apparently my perception wasn't correct. The flow was: - You're given a fairly easy task - You open a PR and send your changes - You write a blog post explaining decisions - You get feedback and questions on your output There was a corner case / usability problem in my implementation, I received some feedback, and implemented the solution. I didn't think much of it, as it felt like normal work on a task and I thought it was cool to test work interactions as opposed to the usual "write this leetcode problem". A new task came up, the reviewer asked for some more behaviour changes; found a corner case reproducible only on Slow 3G and decided to halt the interview, citing the corner cases flagged up and asking for more in-depth analysis in the blogpost. Overall a nice experience and seriously one of the best processes and culture across all companies I've seen in 18 years in the field. I think the interview is passable and on the easy side, just be sure to triple check everything instead of focusing on interacting with the reviewer. From the outside, it sounds like a great company but I would not recommend to join because of the code quality.

Once you are selected you have an interview via Slack, where they want to test your communication skills, so they ask you to explain concepts like Cross-site scripting. Then there's a coding challenge, they give up to a week to allocate 6-8 hours, which is what you are supposed to take to finish it. Finally, you work for them on a part-time basis, and if they like what they see they hire you.