The most closed openness - Anonymous employee Mozilla Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can learn a lot from those real Mozillan: those who are really smart and understand what's good for open source and the vision of web. The dream and the insist on open web still so motivated. It's nice to hear those gurus to share the passion and vision with you.

Cons

Leadership and communication sucks. Also, lot's of people write horrible code without any design in mind, plus the extreme xenophobia to adopt other open technologies. As a result, even the code is under the correct license, it's still almost impossible to be useful for "community", not to mention other open projects. Ironically, it's also very unfriendly to new developers want to contribute. Obstacles from the legacy issue tracker to the "unique" CI services, and the architecture in chaos. So it's the most closed open source, and it looks like no one realize that and have the ability to make the real change. It's also very unacceptable that for the non-US offices, at least here, we've even been told "not to compare to US/other offices". There are many issues show that our opinions, no matter if they're about techs or welfare, we're expected to be suppressed and even ignored.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Great health insurance benefits. Literally you pay nothing per pay check. Also parental leave is 6 months which is rare in the US. Wellness days were nice too.

Cons

Lack of black people in and promoted to senior / management positions even though there are many qualified people to be there. Also management cannot make decisions. They are leaps and bounds behind the competition and many lack competence.

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