from the Land Below the Wind
This post is the second part of my journey to become a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. In this post, I’ll share with you my experience in the Trial, the most exciting journey of the entire application process.
The first part of this post can be found here.
Yesterday I had a very interesting discussion with one of the volunteers at the WordPress.com support forum and an Automattic’s staff about a topic posted on the forum. And thanks to this topic, I learned about domain forward with masking.
Continue reading “How I Learned About Domain Forward with Masking”
Looking back in the month of September, I have a feeling that it’s a slow and unproductive month. However, my progress tracking notes on my journey to become a Happiness Engineer seems
I love changes and I have high adaptability. I’ve always had the desire to change. Even small changes will do.
Looking back at the jobs I had in previous years, I tend to change them in every 2 to 3 years. The reason is that I didn’t have the control to change.
Continue reading “The Desire To Change”It’s been a month since my last update on my journey to become a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I’ve achieved a lot in the month of August and I’m quite satisfied with my overall progress. So here comes my monthly recap on what’s been done to improve my skills required for the job.
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Today, I attended my first WordPress KL meetup for the topic of What, Why and How of WooCommerce, presented by MK Chan, CEO of MKECM IT Solutions.
Continue reading “First WordPress KL Meetup”I have a badge on my WordPress.org profile!
Since July 2018, I’ve started contributing to the WordPress.org community. There are so many ways to contribute but I settled down with the Training team.
Continue reading “Make WordPress Training Team Badge”It’s been over a week I added a checklist for myself to work on my second application on becoming a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. So now I’m going to review my progress and share with you a few achievements that I obtained during this period.
Continue reading “Achievements Unlocked!”There’s easy learning like spoon-feeding all the information required to you and there’s another way of learning which requires a certain amount of pain so you would remember well.
I learned a lesson recently in a hard way. After I was rejected by Automattic, I reviewed the CV and the assignment I submitted to them and I realized there were so many mistakes I made in both the CV and the assignment!
Continue reading “No Pain, No Gain”Background: I sent in a job application for Happiness Engineer at Automattic on 12th July 2018. So this post is about the assignment I was required to complete and submit in order to be considered for the next stage of the whole hiring process, i.e. the first interview.
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