Happiness Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Automattic with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 33.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Happiness Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Automattic overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Automattic as a Happiness Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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The interview was through slack, you had to walk them through a chat customer service interaction. First you are given a take home issues to solve and send on how to fix or actually fix.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Automattic in Dec 2025
Interview
The interview was not bad, but not the best setup for me as someone living with anxiety. I stuttered a few times, though I know and I'm sure of what I wanted to say.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Automattic
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They reach out through Linkedin. They offered a really low budget but I needed a job so I wanted to move forward. Then they sent a form that basically evaluates my intention.
Afterwards, they sent an online assessment like a cognitive ability test with 50 question in 15 minutes, ordinary stuff. Plus an English test, 12 questions, 1 min each. After that, I got rejected.
Probably, either I have really low IQ or I can't even write in English even though I have been working for US/EU companies for years and I have a lot of hands-on experience along with industry-recognized certificates.
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Why are you interested in working for Automattic and the Happiness Engineer role? etc