Why did you choose WordPress

pappu9265 · Post by **pappu9265** » Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:38 am

After a while, I was freaking out in the WordPress developers chat before my first serious interview for a position in a cool Moscow office. One of the local luminaries wrote back to me: “Don’t worry. If they ask a difficult question, just ask for time off as if you were going to the toilet and write to us!”
The funniest thing is that the curator of the team I was going to was in the same chat, and read all of this. The interview turned out to be not scary, the guys looked at my test assignment and said “welcome to the team.”
In general, the party is everything to us, and, of course, I take care of and cultivate these horizontal connections.

— You have worked with various CMS,

When I decided to retrain as a web developer, I simply phone number library looked at CMS ratings to choose the most popular one. At that time, it was Joomla!. I did several projects on it, and then customers started asking for WordPress, which was just then “gaining momentum”. I quickly switched to WordPress and have not parted with it for about 10 years now.

— Is it possible to work successfully from 9:00 to 18:00 and not think about work the rest of the time?

About work? Of course! About programming? No! Firstly, it’s like being on a treadmill: when you stop, you go back. You have to learn a lot. Secondly, we all love to program. Once, during the lockdown, we, the participants of the WordPress chat, decided to get together on Zoom on Fridays with a beer. So we got together, talked about this and that, and then someone discovered a new plugin, and he was like: let me show you. It’s 11 pm, we’re sitting and discussing code. My husband comes over, looks over my shoulder and says: you * (weird).

— There are women designers, bloggers, support specialists, front-end and back-end developers in the community, but if there are few girls in general, then full-stack and back-end developers can be counted on the fingers of one hand. You interview developers yourself and have an idea of the ratio of specialists. Are there really few women or do they just work quietly and have no need for a professional get-together?