Getting a remote job at Automattic with Leif Singer

In this episode, I talk to Leif Singer, an engineer at the fully remote company Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress, a famous and powerful content management system with an estimated 75 Million user base.  We talk about: - why he switched from academia to industry, - how he got hired without knowing the company's tech stack, - why he worked for several months at Automattic before being hired, - how the Automattic creed, influences, and guides company values and mindset, - Automattic's software engineering practices, - and how they fight technical debt during quarterly scheduled clean-up weeks.