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Interns are not spoiled. They are simply treated like any other regular employee. I am not sure what you mean with 'improving HR'. Did you mean 'PR' ? Because Mozilla's HR department is doing a pretty great job.
I don't think regular employes get to keep their laptops :)
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I squash all my stylesheets into one giant .css file to serve rather than a bunch of individual stylesheets. A side-effect of squashing + minifying (which is done every time I generate my website) is that all comments are removed. You are correct, that notice is not present, but I did not remove it intentionally. To be honest, I didn't read the LICENSE.md of Pure CSS. Shame on me :) Feel free to file a bug against th…
TBH, I don't think you're in the wrong here, but expecting someone who has already brought something to your attention to file a "bug report" against your personal website is a bit arrogant.
Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…
You're probably over-weighting the trip to Paris, which sounds ridiculously extravagant. Fortunately, we were able to do it on the cheap since the majority of attendees were already living in or traveling through the region. The local Mozilla office which was able to host us during the workday. Opportunistic hack weeks ftw.
Congratulations. You've officially been spoiled. :) You will take a job somewhere else some day and experience great anguish when it is significantly less awesome. :P The plus side is that you can use that anguish to effect change.
This, this is a really lame. You're a software developer which means you have the opportunity to work virtually wherever and whenever you want. You can write software on a sunny day in the local park, inside a tent in the midst of an Arctic storm, or aboard a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. A laptop can be purchased for $200 and internet can usually be found free. There is no reason to compromise on a less than e…
We work for a company because we think the company can compensate us fairly and those at Mozilla are usually very happy with what they can do (open source projects most of the time). That's interesting. You like your freenlancer, go-everywhere-style, good, but not me.
Idealized city apartment? Half of the people working for Mozilla are remote and the other half spend half of their week at home as well. That's how we work and we make good product.
I like getting a comfortable chair, some snacks and food on a daily and weekly basis. It's like telling people they should all become a freelancer or become their own boss - why work for anybody?
I interned at Mozilla too; my experience there was just as phenomenal. Free $3000 laptop, random games, free food, free apartment etc. However, I think the thing that I cherished the most were the people themselves, they were committed to their mission of making the web a better place. This is especially true of the Metrics team. So many of the discussions regarding privacy and the amount of information I could analy…
Certainly, the amount of resources people put behind stuff varies (Mozilla obviously cares deeply, to the extent of it being their foremost mission; Opera has historically cared about it deeply — it used to be a point that a disproportionate amount of specs were edited by Opera employee — and it is part of their "vision"), but at the end of the day, as an intern you're likely to be working with those directly alongside you almost exclusively.
If you care about working somewhere where people are truly passionate about what they're doing — go for any browser vendor working on an engine (I say this as to exclude Opera — while there are some contributions flowing from there, they are relatively sparse in number — though I wouldn't be surprised for this to change back to them investing heavily in their browser engine as their Blink-based products enter the market). Yes, in many ways Mozilla are probably the best (as there's no question that this view goes all the way to the top), but don't rule out the others.
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You get to keep it. (source: comment below and friend who interned at Mozilla)
That's hella cool. This post makes me want to work at Mozilla!
(The pay is also great and the other perks and location are amazing.)