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Thank you to the MDN and Servo teams for all their hard work. I wish you well for the future and hope you find a new gig soon.
How do you know which teams were laid off? I haven’t been able to find that information.
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'revenue' from Firefox was never enough. It's only really just struck me that of course Google funding them made a dependency and 1) made the company grow beyond its needs, and 2) made it not seek self-sufficiency. If Google are stopping the money then FF is like a person with no money taken in by Google and hooked on drugs; once they're kicked out they can't fund the habit and reliance on Google has meant they've no…
>'revenue' from Firefox was never enough I mean I'm looking at the leadership page and all I can ask myself is do you need to pay that many executives just to build a web browser? I'd be fascinated to know how much it costs Apple to develop Safari, a browser multiple times more successful than Firefox judging by Wikipedia. Just a hunch but I'd bet money it's a fraction of the cost of running this bloated pseudo-chari…
It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
I don't know the details, but the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have different budgets and legally have to spend the money on different things (since the Foundation is a non-profit). They can't just move money around like a normal company can.
You can infer from the foundation tax returns that most of the assets are held by the corporation: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...
It's the assets held directly by the foundation that have implications for their tax status, and they only move assets to that status as necessary.
Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.
The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal technical culture is more similar than different.
I hope the formerly Mozilla employees all find roles quickly, but I suspect that well more than 250 employees have been laid off since the beginning of the pandemic. Is there a particular reason why these layoffs need exceptional response?
I think there's two parts here: 1. These layoffs specifically get a lot of time on HN because people have strong feelings about Firefox, Mozilla's mission and the teams in particular (ie Servo, MDN). 2. Specific efforts like this site are a function of Mozilla's alumni community, which is a function of Mozilla/Firefox's culture. (Or, maybe, past culture?) So it isn't so much that the engineers laid off from Mozilla n…
Dope website and inspiring personal website: https://gkoberger.com/ Now I gotta work on my personal website.
Element (the company from the Matrix.org core team) is super interested in providing refuge to Mozilla folks - we share the same goals of building the open web, albeit with a focus on open communication. (We'd put ourselves on the mozillalifeboat.com page, but I somehow doubt our Mozilla alumni uses FB... :D) Particular areas that may be of interest include developer documentation (making https://matrix.org/docs/spec…
> What PartnerStack is hiring for: Infra devs, Python devs, JS devs, Product, Marketing
Yet on their actual Lever.co jobs page the only technical role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer?
Some of these are weird. > What PartnerStack is hiring for: Infra devs, Python devs, JS devs, Product, Marketing Yet on their actual Lever.co jobs page the only technical role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer?
Some of these are weird. > What PartnerStack is hiring for: Infra devs, Python devs, JS devs, Product, Marketing Yet on their actual Lever.co jobs page the only technical role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer?