Mozilla reviews

Management is rotten to the core. The company is very top heavy with some 30 executives that travel the world first class to have meetings in lavish places but in the end nothing comes from it. The company hasn't had a coherent strategy ever since Brendan Eich left. Mozilla is supposedly a tech company but the CEO lacks any technical expertise or vision. Of the 30 executives maybe one knows how to write code. The rest of them are friends of the new CEO. Grifters and looters. He drove out all the executives who built Mozilla.

* People will know what Firefox is, but you'll often get "oh, I used to use that 10 years ago" comments. * People have talent, but often aren't engaging that talent. * Might be dispiriting if you *aren't* remote, because you'll be working with lots of people who aren't in your office. * Everyone wants to work towards the mission, but often they are really expected to be employees and work on their assigned tasks. This leads to grumpiness – whether in yourself or the people you work with, this is demotivating. * A couple years ago I think upper management decided to deal with a perceived (probably true) problem of too much dead weight among staff. There's been a lot of negative management as a result to try to clear out that staff. Everyone gets hit with the negativity. * Projects get cancelled, like they do everywhere. Because it's a mission-oriented company it's easy to become emotionally attached to your work, making those cancellations hurt more. Also because of the mission it often feels more arbitrary, as each person has a different understanding of what it means to address the mission. * It's not a joyful culture. Maybe it's because Firefox is in decline. Maybe it's because of the kind of person who is drawn to Mozilla. * I suspect that a large portion of Mozilla feels like they aren't doing enough, that they aren't good enough, that they aren't worthwhile. There's a lot of blows to the ego, something about Mozilla makes people not feel good about themselves.