My Background
I started working from a young age as I come from a background that requires self sufficiency. In the last 6 years, I’ve worked in many different places. As soon as I finished the army, I started working for the Association of Former Residents in China, initially as a translator and liaison for the Chinese Embassy in Israel. A year later I was already the website manager, editing and updating it daily. At my will to expand my resume (and salary…), I tried out for the customer service position at a local financial investments firm. Six months later I was promoted to tech support and then to managing the technical department. Since the business is around financial investments, it taught me a lot about economic trading, Forex and Binary Options, as well as market analysis and some other boring things. Later, I moved onto an advanced position of directing the customer service department in another city. Although I felt out of place there, it was a great way to learn new things and also helped me pay for my overly expensive college. That being said, every cent I paid to that college paid out quite recently, since thanks to them I found out about Automattic.
During one of the Organizational Psychology courses, one of Automattic’s employees came about to speak about the unique and wonderful organizational design and culture of Automattic. Working with people from all over the world, everyone unique and hilarious in their own way, from the comfort of one’s home and pj’s. As soon as I heard the lecture, I could not resist but to ask and learn everything there is about Automattic. Indeed it was very surprising at first as it is not like any other company I’ve ever worked for.