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
1.0
Oct 7, 2020

Good Cause with BAD Employees.. too much Politics and Strange Racism

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Flexible work schedule - Options for working remotely - Great Mission and attracts people who want to do the right thing

Cons

- Mozilla is struggling to create a sustainable financial model that doesn't require cash from Google( the company they claim are destroying user privacy) -Bully behavior is common here and people who are favorites get away with it. This is a place for people who are extremely extroverted people who loves to step on other people's shoes & can play politics. If you don't fall under that category you might feel overwhelmed. Employees are not treated well, they fall victim of too much politics and are scared to speak up and express themselves. -Mozilla has a racially charged environment, being a person of minority race I have faced discrimination on many levels. Their focus is not on being fair to people of color, their focus is on looking good to the outside world. -Leaders are not trusting of their team and they decide to micro-manage which slows down execution. Employees feel over-worked and stressed due to lack of direction & politics, which results in making mistakes. Developing employees is not on the agenda for HR and leaders, they are too busy playing politics.

Mozilla Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts about Mozilla. It was disappointing to hear. We promote and work to enforce the Community Participation Guidelines. (https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2020/09/10/weaving-safety-into-the-fabric-of-open-source/ + https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ There is no place for bullying or discrimination at Mozilla, and we wish you would have shared your thoughts while here at Mozilla.
2.0
Jul 15, 2018

Great work / life balance + flexibility

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mozilla allows for a very good work / life balance as people don't work that hard and everyone is very respective of family obligations. Flex for working arrangements and strong mission orientation. If you're junior + middle management, cash comp is pretty good

Cons

Executive team has no idea what they are doing - no bold vision, no clear direction about how to remain relevant or diversify the business. Hesitant to make any type of risky decision. Vp's and C-level staff are some of the worst collective executive management team I've ever been around. THis company on current trajectory will be 1/2 the size in 4-5 years. Very little career trajectory growth if you're not on the engineering side of the house

Mozilla Response
8y
Good morning! Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback! I will definitely forward the thoughts and advice you have listed! After our all company meeting in June, there was a lot of buzz around projects that expanded beyond the scope of Firefox with new teams being built for such projects. If you are comfortable doing so, I would love to gain any additional insight you have around taking risks or additional feedback around what you would like to see from the executive team. I can be reached at cstpierre@mozilla.com. Thank you again for taking the time to let us know your thoughts! Chris St. Pierre Talent Specialist
2.0
Sep 9, 2017

Corporate, no innovation, bullying good people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work-life balance, remote work. Nicely located offices. Open source. Good if you have a family.

Cons

Heavy corporate culture. Full of corporate middle managers with not much to do. Expect many meetings with product managers, engineering managers, project managers, strategy managers, with one developer to solve simple problems. Politics and diversity are superficial; they use diversity as a card when it suits them, and ignore it otherwise. Leadership is a boys club of friends from the old days from dead companies that hire each other. They might reject a good hire and play the diversity card, and then go around and hire ten non-diverse people. Succumbed to the big players. No longer innovative and low ambition. Good ideas shot down due to fear of Google. Strategy revolves around corporate partnerships and lots of managers. Weekly meetings focus around trying to convince people that Mozilla is doing OK. Successful projects when noticed will be swarmed by managers trying to advance their careers. If you do something good, expect to later be pushed out. Successful and driven people get their bonuses docked by managers because they speak up. If you grow a flower, expect it to be picked and killed. Office politics and bullying. People lobbying managers and ostracizing good people. Emotional abuse will make you lose your sanity. Safe haven for slackers. Developers that have done nothing for months or years. Perhaps they change a config file once every two weeks. Developer culture is gone. Most developers stay around because they have families to feed. A lot of the developer-oriented media are low quality article and speaker factories.

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