I want to say thanks to @dch, @frankyeahjessfrank and@ambarrios23 from Tumblr’s @creatrs, who reached out to me, sent me the goodies (3 Tumblr “swag t-shirts” (best name, 10/10) and with which I had a chat about some really cool stuff, and thank you to the entirety of Tumblr and Automattic’s staff!
So, story time!
I was reading Matt Mullenweg’s Tumblr blog, the person which I reblogged this post from, a.k.a. Mr. Automattic Wordpress guy™, after he showed publicly the new design for the t-shirts made for Tumblr’s staff.
I ask if it was merch, because I’m an idiot and didn’t realize they were made appositely for @staff.
Then, David Hayes (@ dch), Tumblr’s Head of Creative Strategy, sends me a text saying “You want a shirt? We’ll send you one”!
They sent THREE!
I ask if there has been a mistake, y'know, to make sure… and they told me to enjoy the shirts. No mistakes.
I am so thankful and a little freaked out, to be honest, haha, thank you so much y'all! ♡
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 are several months long, while others may turn into a permanent team switch.
Tumblr, which is part of Automattic, is currently hiring data scientistsandsearch engineersandmachine learning engineers. Thanks to this system of rotations, last year we were able to fill a few of these positions, on the Tumblr Core Data Science team, internally. This team contributes to Tumblr recommendation systems, discovery feeds, targeted push notifications, user-interest profiling, and computational advertisement. Team members work on designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale machine learning algorithms, data pipelines, and backend services to connect users with the content they love. Our data infrastructure is built on top of open source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Scalding, orchestrated by Apache Airflow and with a PHP backend layer.
In this post, Adam and Vicki, two Automatticians who experienced a rotation onto the team, tell us about their work in data, their rotations, and being part of Automattic.
Reblog if you’re still seeing porn bots despite the NSFW ban. I’m still seeing them. Plenty of legitimate followers seem to be blocked from my feed, however.
