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Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by amelius »

gcp wrote: post #31
nsebban wrote: post #22

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> Is it a sinking ship? Only if we're not up for the challenge of fighting back corporations that want to lock the web being walled gardens. Time will tell, but someone should fight the good fight, even if it's a lost cause. It definitely is a fight worth fighting. And most people will agree that having several good web-browser options is important. What bothers me is the strategy that Mozilla used, to try and compet…

giving Firefox users a browser that looks like, and feeling like Chrome. Yawn. What did we do this time? Make it faster? Follow platform guidelines or modernize the design style? Adopt an extension model that can be combined with replacing the browser internals? Use rounded tabs? No wait, scratch that, they're square again.

Next time, avoid the whole problem and make the browser layout more user-configurable (in an easy way).

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by gcp »

amelius wrote: post #41
gcp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

giving Firefox users a browser that looks like, and feeling like Chrome. Yawn. What did we do this time? Make it faster? Follow platform guidelines or modernize the design style? Adopt an extension model that can be combined with replacing the browser internals? Use rounded tabs? No wait, scratch that, they're square again.

Next time, avoid the whole problem and make the browser layout more user-configurable (in an easy way).

I think there should also be a switch to make it faster.

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by gcp »

zerr wrote: post #35
gcp wrote: post #17

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Getting hired directly by Mozilla requires them to have a (minimal) legal presence in your country. If that isn't there, you'll be hired through an intermediary, but that is - as far as I know - possible essentially worldwide.

No, that intermediary option is also limited to some particular countries.

AFAIK it's more correct to say that only some particular countries are excluded, but I'm not HR and I have no idea where your are getting that impression from, so I won't comment further.

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by bjpbakker »

dan1234 wrote: post #39
celticninja wrote: post #25

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So what's your default web browser and how does it greet you?

Not OP, but Safari. It greets me with a blank page, which is just how I like it.

Huh? Since when is the default start page of Safari not apple.com? Or did you change it manually?

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by zerr »

gcp wrote: post #43
zerr wrote: post #35

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No, that intermediary option is also limited to some particular countries.

AFAIK it's more correct to say that only some particular countries are excluded, but I'm not HR and I have no idea where your are getting that impression from, so I won't comment further.

I got this information from Mozilla HR who clarified this with the hiring manager, for the country in Europe.

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by cies »

matt4077 wrote: post #10

They've made some bad decisions, but it seems that they've managed to right the ship again, with the latest releases of firefox getting rave reviews and some really exciting technologies slowly taking shape. Firefox has been widely panned the last few years, but that may have been somewhat harsh, and ungrateful to Mozilla as an organisation. Yes, Chrome has been running laps around them. But that's mostly the result…

Thanks. You're comment captured exactly why I browse with FF.

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by jvehent »

gcp wrote: post #42
amelius wrote: post #41

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Next time, avoid the whole problem and make the browser layout more user-configurable (in an easy way).

I think there should also be a switch to make it faster.

Like that "turbo" switch on my 1990s PC!

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by zerr »

gcp wrote: post #40
zerr wrote: post #38

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Extremes aside, one of the main reasons for working remotely is to escape the local [low wage] market, especially in developing countries.

Differentiated salary does not imply low wage. It means you don't get 150k USD/year for a Junior Software Engineer in rural India.

Neither 100K for a Senior Engineer...

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by gcp »

zerr wrote: post #45
gcp wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK it's more correct to say that only some particular countries are excluded, but I'm not HR and I have no idea where your are getting that impression from, so I won't comment further.

I got this information from Mozilla HR who clarified this with the hiring manager, for the country in Europe.

Ok, so one country in Europe is excluded.

This is quite far removed from "remote hiring limited to some particular countries". A large part of Mozilla's workforce is spread out through Europe, so there can't be too many exceptions.

Re: Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

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Post by hysan »

bjpbakker wrote: post #44
dan1234 wrote: post #39

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Not OP, but Safari. It greets me with a blank page, which is just how I like it.

Huh? Since when is the default start page of Safari not apple.com? Or did you change it manually?

I don't know what it was like before, but when I got my first MacBook Pro maybe 2 years ago, the default start page for Safari was blank.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I checked to see my defaults and the Homepage is still apple.com. However, the "opens with" settings are set to Favorites (top of the list, probably the default) which explains why it opens with a blank page. So the change was probably whenever they added the Favorites page feature; most likely to compete with Chrome/Firefox/Opera/etc.

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