On 11/27/2013 11:45 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
"Coming on board · When you make it past the interview stage we’ll do a project together on contract, typically lasting between 3-8 weeks, to see how we work together. When you join full-time, regardless of your position, you’ll do customer support for WordPress.com for your first three weeks. We believe this early connection with the people who use our products is irreplaceable." http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
ING DIRECT also does/did the second part (customer support time, even if hired as a software engineer), though I don't think that long.
If we wanted something analogous, it could be bug triage. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices