Mozilla reviews

2.8

38% would recommend to a friend

(461 total reviews)
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Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

100% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Mozilla has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 461 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Mozilla employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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461 reviews
2.0
Mar 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Great employee perks. free lunch, beautiful offices, A+ health benefits. good work/life balance. * great and smart people. most understand the mission and believe it. * flexible with working in your IDE of choice. adaptive to new technologies and tools. open to hearing new ideas.

Cons

* Management direction is a mess. Changing goals all the time * The community of volunteers to make an impact is dying out. Many of the star performing community members is giving up and moving on to other things * Losing the great people is hurting. Your top leaders, engineers, and influence are all leaving at the same time and taking their talents elsewhere. Those stepping up are promoted too quickly, and those working hard are not recognized for their talents. CEO is trying to clean the place up, but at the mercy of the transition of losing great people right now.

1.0
Sep 19, 2014

Don't do it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Once upon a time, Mozilla was ranked as a very good place to work. Once upon a time, it was. I suppose for some careers, like exec assistants, or one of the too many strata of managers there, it still is. I do not know what it would be like to work in Mozilla's Taiwan office. I'm only speaking of Mountain View. As a technology, Rust programming language is starting to look very promising. Comp and benefits are excellent.

Cons

There's a general feeling that people here are least valued where the rubber hits the road. Without engineers and community making stuff, no organization has any use for any of the other roles. But it's clearly the other roles that are more valued. In fact, it's career suicide to work here as an engineer in many areas. The codebase is a mess, there's an awful barrier of entry to contribute to some areas, the way community is treated on projects like Firefox OS (build 'em up, knock 'em down), is despicable. Many wonder, rightfully so, what kind of jobs they can actually get with Mozilla technologies. Good question. They just don't wonder loud enough, in my opinion. The environment has grown recently quite toxic, with backstabbing, etc. I've witnessed somewhat talentless people climbing up the management chain blatantly try to take credit for work others have done. Also, dreadful HR. What purpose do they serve? As it is there is zero path for career growth in many engineering areas, and HR does little if anything to address this problem. The browser share is falling, and Firefox OS market penetration is negligible.

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