Hi! Currently interviewing for first full-time role and currently in the loop with Mozilla. There's not a lot of recent stuff on Blind. What's working there like? What does compensation look like especially with it being nonprofit?
Mozilla is remote first, expect gaining autonomy how to execute your role rather quickly. The goal is to have team members in similar timezones but there can be overlap with people east and west which means you need to actively decide when your workday is done when Slack, Element and email are humming with activity. As we are not Big Tech, the people are concentrated on a few areas and not every opportunity can be explored but like GS mentioned the platform group had leeway to build well known, successful technologies. There is much freedom to shape the plans what you will be working on, collaboration with other teams can be frequent and is expected. About comp: Ask for the career level: People in their first full-time position start with P1 or P2 (depends on previous experience gained in internships etc). levels.fyi had pretty accurate TC but they purged older info. Facebook and Google pay more (for my role 30-50% net).
This is super helpful! Yeah I was looking at levels.fyi and could've sworn I saw more data a few months ago đ Ty!! Do you think the comp is fair? Given culture, mission, rest of the tech industry, etc.
Aside from a salary, both the work on a product used by millions of people and the web technology used by the digital B2B/B2C industry allows one to grow and have plenty of choices early in the career. We Mozillians haven't met in a physical location since January 2020 - there are some online events solely for fostering the culture/community feeling, still the bonds have weakened for some of us. The last 2 years were focused on revenue diversification + new services which we presented to our users on upgrade but didn't integrate into Firefox. It's a necessity for the mission but still can feel less mission-like. Employment is a stage of professional life, another person will carry on the torch if one leaves - conceding too much or too long for the mission while one is unhappy breeds long-term bitterness. Enjoy the job while it lasts, independent of the company. The comp can be described as fair, and the door to other employers remains open - even if that requires the 12 labors of interviewing or a former coworker or boss at the company. Check where you want to live if you already know, check the prices for which homes change owners and compare to money saved per month - just to get an impression of the situation. Most tech companies don't pay enough to afford a home in a HCOL area. But with remote work, there is the option to get to know the world a tad more and revisit such ideas later (some employees switched locations either permanently or temporarily, e.g. to Europe - this needs support by management whose main concerns would be cost and overlap of working hours with team).
Executives are incompetent and like to come down on people who try to report problems. Keep your head down, kiss a lot of director+VP ass, and youâll do fine!
Yikes. Isn't this a general problem in tech in general? Or like is it especially bad there
Its really bad. They also inspect your personal social media and talking outside of your work. Ask to remove your words outside of work.
Whatâs the pay for staff/senior position in Mozilla. Please let me know, Iâm in interview process for the role. Thanks
It depends on location
Bay Area California
Great codebases extremely good engineers If this is the best opportunity you have take it (majority are remote so you might need to be more of an initiative taker) Working with rust, treeherder, webassembly anything over there is usually latest tech stacks and you will get a solid grasp of concepts if you wish to switch
O shit that all sounds so great!