Mozilla Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Mozilla full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great Culture, fun, smart people to work with.

Cons – Growing into a huge Corporate culture

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla full-time for more than a year

Pros – Work is demanding but fulfilling. You make a contribution every day.

Cons – So much to do, so little time!

Advice to Senior Management – Stay in touch with your minions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla full-time for more than a year

Pros – Transparency and flexibility. The company is becoming a corporation but it retains a lot of the values of the start-up that it was and the community focus is great. It's a great place if you want to take it easy. Ability to work from home with no questions.

Cons – The company is trying to figure out what he wants to do. There's a change on focus every month and projects that are in the process to be staffed get deprioritized leaving people with no projects until they can figure out what to do next. Middle management doesn't have the experience to lead the organization, a lot of them have been promoted from the community with no real skill set. Senior employees and executives are leaving and the morale of the company is destroyed.

Advice to Senior Management – Set clear goals and focus on a strategy for at least a year before pivoting again. Rise the bar at the Director level and monitor low performers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Mozilla as an intern for less than a year

Pros – The transparency and public openness of the organization meant that I could share my work with the world in a way possible at very few other places.

Cons – At least right now, the products feel like they're playing catch-up, and the old community love seems to have dwindled.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on what defines Mozilla: Freedom, Openness, and the community. Build great product based on those, not just comparing yourself to others.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla

Pros – Mozilla is full of smart folks who are willing to help each other out in a pinch. We all work together, if someone's very busy and there's stuff going on, others will offer to help. It's a *very* good environment for remote workers - 75% of my team is remote, so nobody has the feeling they missed something because they weren't "in the office". The bonuses are indeed real, and the salary itself is competitive.

Cons – The developers choose the technology they work on with very little input from the Systems team, so sometimes we have to manage something that's completely inappropriate to the technology involved. However, that's actually changing in 2012 - already in 2011 there were some changes that developers did not like at first, but appreciate that we can better support them. So we're doing more of that, and hopefully this con will go away.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla

Pros – Mozilla is Mission-based organization and nothing trumps the mission so you know you always get to "do the right thing". It's also a collection of some of the smartest people involved in the development of the Web.

Cons – Mozilla is a non-profit and depends heavily on a volunteer community to be competetive. These are not downsides unless you're unfamiliar with them and unwilling to learn. They do make Mozilla different from pretty much every other Web company though and it's not for everyone.

Advice to Senior Management – Mozilla leadership should spend more time creating a sense of urgency among employees. The industry is moving fast and Mozilla employees do not always feel the urgency necessary to compete effectively.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla

Pros – nice people, great benefits, good hrs, nice offices, good culture, open door, great bonus, nice equipment, catered food, good coffee

Cons – most of the employee base is too young and does not have the experience required to lead, the marketing dept is totally incompetent and under qualified

Advice to Senior Management – a complete re-org of the entire mkg dept from the top down

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Mozilla

Pros – Open culture, flexible, very relaxed.

Cons – most people are remote which is annoying. People play office politics quite a bit..

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla

Pros – A lot of work to be done, innovative environment, nice people, and open .

Cons – We don't get free food every day.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep bringing in smart people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Mozilla

Pros – - "Start up" culture feel, but with solid real-world stability
- Company committed to doing The Right Thing
- Decisions are not driven only by money, but by "what would be the best user experience?"
- Internally, dedication to doing things the right way (even if it means having to redo existing choices)
- Not afraid to spend money (smartly)
- Not afraid of funding wacky side projects if they have potential
- Hiring policy: "We only hire rock stars"
- Amazingly good benefits (all premiums covered, lots of neat perks)
- Generous bonuses, paid quarterly (and, yeah, we actually get them every quarter)
- Pathologically friendly to remote work arrangements
- Open source-driven
- HQ is in downtown Mountain View -- great restaurant selection nearby.
- Company will provide whatever equipment you need to be comfortable & productive (weird mouse? done. high-end ergo chair? done. multiple monitors? done.)
- Good parking situation
- Free snacks, drinks, and lunch on Mondays
- Friday cantinas (company-funded drinking)
- Dogs at work

Cons – - So many people working remote can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but it's just an adjustment.
- No stock (private corp owned by an NFP foundation)
- The nature of "we'll try any technology if it's the right technology" sometimes causes a lot of different tools doing the same (or almost the same) thing in different places as each person/team gets to re-make the choice.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep being awesome.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend