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Hack Project: Tackling FOMO on the P2 Land

Automattic, a fully distributed company, utilizes a unique internal blogging network known as P2 for team communication. Due to the vast volume of posts and comments, employees often struggle with the fear of missing out (FOMO) on important content. To address this, a team of data and machine learning experts initiated a hack project that…
romanurbanovski

Women of Datamattic: Anna Elek

Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is our Head of Data, Anna Elek.
Javier Tiniaco Leyba

How to profit from an Analytics Skill Matrix

These job postings usually arise due to a problem of inaccurate needs assessments, resulting in a delayed and complex hiring process Javier Andrés Tiniaco Leyba – Tumblr Data Science Analytics Team Lead at Automattic The Analytics Skill Matrix is a tool we use in Data teams throughout Automattic. It developed from our interest in creating…
Raúl Antón Cuadrado

Challenge Hiring Assumptions with Data

We use experiments to model reality (sometimes to create alternative realities as in A/B experiments), to understand reality, and ultimately, to make decisions moving us ever closer to our goals. Improving iteratively, we learn not only from successful experiments but also from failed attempts. Experiments are important because they provide us with measurements. And measurements…
Adam Zieliński

Advance your Career with Automattic Rotations

One distinguishing feature of Automattic’s work culture is a team rotation, through which an individual can move from one team to another. A rotation can happen for a few reasons: to “try out” a new role and gain new skills, to backfill an understaffed team, or to cultivate cross-pollination and diversity across the company. Some rotations…