I'll bite. What makes WordPress too heavy in your regard (I'm a huge fan of WordPress my self, so quite biased), is it the way you use it, or the themes you use?
At it's base, WordPress is quite simple, and it's the themes that define what it looks like and feels like to your users. If you are looking for something very simple then there's the simple twenty twelve theme which is very clean. The theme directory on wordpress.org is also full of themes, there's even a plugin that transforms your WordPress into "Ghost" (The same feel and layout).
But I would love to hear back on my original question as well regarding it being heavy.
The article stated you would be working in the area you wish to work in, so if you are a developer you will most likely be working on WordPress or something relating to it (I may be wrong, just a presumption).
Considering that Wordpress is open source and any candidate applying at Automattic as a developer will most likely be familiar or know of it, the chance of having a developer not being familiar with it in one way or another are slim, even more so if it's someone actually wanting the job.
If I was looking to be hired by a company working with open source, I would most definitely do my homework up fornt and familiarize my self with their "flagship product" as it were.
This gets even worse when mixed in with emails, I recently bumped heads with the naming limitations as the naming of invoices exceeded the limits and rendered the excel file useless (it "existed", it would just error if you tried opening it).
File name limitation in 75 characters, so now my system renames the file when sending them by email to just the invoiced clients name, and retains the properly formatted one in the folder structure (It's a very detailed one following a "<course code>-<course name> <course date from and to> <student name> - <billable company>.xsl" pattern as it revolves around certifications and needs to follow certain regulations, and obviously exceeds 75 characters with ease)
Jagex also maintains the Classic worlds for those who maintained a character presence there, private servers are actually being taken down left and right as they violate Jagex's terms and their legal team is quite efficient (there are many news articles about their legal battles as of late)
The beta is unfortunately not accepting new users at the moment, I'm guessing they don't want to put too much strain on anything before it's been thoroughly tested.
It is, it also shows what innovative ways Jagex go to in bring both the web and gaming industry closer, and forward.
Just for clarification; I'm not an employee of Jagex, I'm a long time player of RuneScape though. I'm also a huge fan of what they've accomplished when you look at the systems they use, and the hardware required to enjoy their products.
Would be lovely if they didn't hotlink placehold.it for their images as that site requires captcha approval before showing their images so mine is just a bunch of broken image links.
At it's base, WordPress is quite simple, and it's the themes that define what it looks like and feels like to your users. If you are looking for something very simple then there's the simple twenty twelve theme which is very clean. The theme directory on wordpress.org is also full of themes, there's even a plugin that transforms your WordPress into "Ghost" (The same feel and layout).
But I would love to hear back on my original question as well regarding it being heavy.