Tag: Automattic

  • My Journey to Happiness – Part 1

    My Journey to Happiness – Part 1

    I’m so excited to officially announce that I’m a Happiness Engineer at Automattic! I started this journey in July 2018 and I was rejected twice. I’m hired as a Happiness Engineer after my third application submission in October 2018.

  • The Desire To Change

    The Desire To Change

    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.

  • No Pain, No Gain

    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…

  • The Assignment And The Rejection

    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.

  • A Leap of Faith

    Today, I made a leap of faith by hitting the submit button on the Job Application for Happiness Engineer form at Automattic. It started a few months ago when I was doing the random Google search on the keywords like “freelance jobs in Malaysia”. After a few clicks here and there, the Work with Us…