In this episode, I talk to Leif Singer, an engineer at the fully remote company Automattic. Automattic is the company behind WordPress, a famous and powerful content management system with an estimated 75 Million user base. 

We talk about:

- why he switched from academia to industry,

- how he got hired without knowing the company's tech stack,

- why he worked for several months at Automattic before being hired,

- how the Automattic creed, influences, and guides company values and mindset,

- Automattic's software engineering practices,

- and how they fight technical debt during quarterly scheduled clean-up weeks.