I haven't worked there, but I imagine it's quite different today than it was in the first few years. They are more structured now, though still relatively flat considering the size. It's a team based atmosphere with team leads for each project. Teams rotate as needed, they aren't hard-line departments.

Scott Berkun worked there for over a year and then wrote a book about his experience. Probably as good of a resource you'll find, and a quick read. I reviewed the book here: http://www.poststat.us/year-without-pants/

Looks like they hire on contract basis first so maybe you should try and apply to see if it is a good fit: http://www.poststat.us/automattic-trial-data-employee-retent...

A few years ago, I was debugging a problem on a Wordpress.com hosted site and found that they put a job ad in their HTTP response headers, based on the notion that anyone looking at their HTTP headers would be the sort of person they would want to hire.

Some fun things to do with sites of companies for which you would like to work:

+ Check out their source code in a web browser

+ Check out their HTTP headers

+ Check out their 404 page

+ Look for a humans.txt file

Every once in a while, a company that has an engineering team with a sense of humor will hide an Easter egg in one of these places. And sometimes, it's a job posting.

Anyone know of other somewhat common places that companies use to hide Easter eggs?

In the CEO's bedroom nightstand.

Note: this is an advanced Easter egg hunting technique.

I'd like to know too. I actually applied about 2 weeks ago and haven't heard a thing yet. I'd like to think it's just because they've been busy switching CEO's... :)