Difficulty
Average
Candidate-reported interview insights
Automattic Javascript Developer interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Javascript Developer role at Automattic.
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Interview overview
Average rounds
3.2
Average duration
~44 days
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy0%
average56.2%
difficult43.8%
Candidate experience
positive43.8%
neutral6.2%
negative50%
Candidate-reported interview process
The interview process was mostly done on Slack. There was a take home assignment that needed to be finished within a week. After the take home, an engineer would review the codebase.
We started with a slack chat, then a take-home coding test, after that a phone interview, and finally a paid trial. It was a fun but long process. The team was nice, and I got to join a real Automattic slack channel to chat with people there.
So I applied and there were some short answer questions that popped up again in the interview. The interview itself was on Slack which I found kinda stressful bc I couldn't tell if I was doing okay. The reason they do Slack interviews is cool though, since it's how they work day-to-day. After that, I would have had a coding challenge and then a paid trial.
Common Automattic Javascript Developer interview questions
A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.
- 1
Tell me about your experience with testing.
- 2
What are your thoughts on Design Patterns?
- 3
Explain asynchronous calls in JavaScript.
- 4
What is a security flaw in this plugin?
Interview question formats
Technical42.9%
Coding28.6%
Behavioral25.7%
System Design2.9%
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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Automattic.