Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic

Life is too short to work in such a toxic place. I've been in two of them; not having a job can be bad, but life goes on much more pleasantly when you get out.

So true. In the same boat with having two of them. Stole 7 years off my life, and took 3 to recover from. It's not worth it.

I quit my last job on the spot without a new job lined up. Place wa horrible, my manager made me feel horrible -- even when they had spent the previous 7 months praising me, they still had a way of making you feel absolutely miserable -- and I got to a place where I had to leave or very bad things would happen. I've been with my current employer for about 2 years now and I love it here, love the people, the work, the company. It was very hard to walk away from a job without secured income but it was absolutely the right decision.