Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by kbrosnan » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 6:10 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #80

k__ wrote: post #78

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> Terrible tools written in anger in 2003 lolwat?

Seriously, what was happening in 2003 that made Mozilla employees angry?

Nothing specific. It is being used to convey that the code was written at an emotional high or low maybe when the author was tired or under time pressure to get something that worked.

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

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Post by tedmielczarek » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 9:53 AM UTC

zerr wrote: post #48

gcp wrote: post #40

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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...

I live in rural Pennsylvania and Mozilla pays me quite well as a staff engineer, FWIW.

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

#83

Post by tedmielczarek » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 9:54 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #33

I was a contributor 3 years ago and my experience with Mozilla was mixed. On the one hand, the people are skilled and super nice and I think you do good stuff when working there. On the other hand you work on big old software projects with all the tools that grew onto them over the years. So if you on the technical side of things, you better like maintenance work, hehe.

On the flip side, there's plenty of room for writing lots of shiny new stuff in Rust, which is a pretty unique Mozilla opportunity. :)