WordPress division doesn’t mean the open source one, it means anyone working on WordPress related products, like jetpack, Woo, VIP, dotcom… The rest work on non-wp like tumblr, dayone, beeper and other apps.
I realize that, but the question remains: if 80% of the people who quit came from a single division, the percent of the company that quit is somewhat irrelevant. That division is the one we're interested in here, and it might have been completely gutted for all we know.
Division is probably the wrong term used, we have several divisions, you can categorize them into 2 categories:
- WordPress ecosystem (majority). Around 80% of the company.
- Non-WordPress ecosystem (minority). Around 20% of the company.
The % of people who left is consistent between those 2 divisions.
How's the distribution of departures by tenure and level? We know one of them was Executive Director over WordPress—is she an outlier or does the departure list skew to the top?
And within the "WordPress division", is the spread even between groups, or does it skew towards some groups over others?
> is the spread even between groups, or does it skew towards some groups over others?
Spread mostly evenly. I'm not sure I'm allowed to share tenure, I'm mostly going to share what was here, but tenure felt logical, most people who left were on the 3-5 years range, most of people in Automattic joined in that period of rapid hiring.
> The posted memo states that a majority of the 139 employees working on product and marketing at Tumblr (in a team apparently named "Bumblr") will "switch to other divisions."