Mullenweg: Automattic is at 2,000 employees and hired 700 last year
Matt Mullenweg · How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic · Mar 24, 2022 · at 53:24
Matt Mullenweg shares Automattic's headcount scale and hiring rate while discussing managing distributed teams.
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“You know, we're 2000 people now. We hired 700 last year, by the way, so you can scale this quite a bit.”
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