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
Feb 28, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some really top people there. It's always good to work on open source. The pay and benefits are good, and regular bonuses.

Cons

I expected a relaxed and friendly startup kind of place. Alas, it was by far the most "corporate" and yet least efficient environment I've ever worked in. As one example, it took IT months to get me a work computer. They're now spending $100m/yr on developers. It's very hard to see what that's achieving. Seems as if top talent is wasting its time there compared to what's being achieved at Google, Apple and others. One reason is massive technical debt and an insane codebase.

5.0
Jan 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome perks. Great pay. Challenging projects. Very smart people to work with.

Cons

I wish there were clearer processes.

3.0
Nov 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of smart people that would love to help you out with your work. - Everything is open source. All of your work goes back to the community. You get paid to build out your Github profile! - Plenty of PTO; unexpected paid vacations! - Mozilla has an energy that no other company I've worked for has. Everyone is excited about the future of the products. - There's a great community that will help you with your work! People are excited to help make your product better. - Lots of paid travel all around the world. - Every office has an appropriately complicated coffee making machine. Mountain View, for instance, has an automatic latte machine. SF has an exceptionally hipster espresso press.

Cons

- Oftentimes too much management. Carriers and third parties have started to drive product decisions, and everything seems to be an emergency. - There's an attitude of "it's not good unless it's changing". Products get bloated with features that nobody cares about and technical debt falls by the wayside. - Entire teams are remote. When I started, most of my team was in the office I was in. The overwhelming majority of my department is now remote, and people keep moving away. - Don't expect to be able to change teams. If the team you want to move to doesn't have headcount, you're out of luck. I've tried changing teams and the only opportunity I had was to fill a vacancy that would open in the following quarter. - Mozilla has more paid staff than some of its products have active users. If you don't work on Firefox, don't expect to be reaching millions of people. - Depending on what team you're on, you shouldn't expect to participate in activities with your coworkers: partly because they're probably remote and partly because they just don't happen very often. In the two years I've been here, I've seen most of my coworkers in person exactly one time.

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