How often have you been scrolling LinkedIn or a job board for open positions only to find senior level positions and not much else? Where is the investment in early-in-career talent? After a few years’ hiatus, Mozilla is doubling down on our own investments in student workers.

Security Assurance Engineer Stéphanie Ouillon reflects on nearly a decade at Mozilla, what keeps her job interesting and challenging, and how being relationship-minded makes all the difference.

Every week, Principal Software Engineer Mike Conley shares his screen and narrates as he works. He started “The Joy of Coding” a few years back, because he wanted to take up our CEO Mitchell Baker’s challenge to Mozilla: to find new ways to be radically open. Mike’s openness not only helps people experience what goes into building Firefox, but feel more like they can be part of it, too. As he says: “If someone sees your struggle, not only can they learn from it, it also helps fight impostor syndrome. That’s actually turned out to be one of the main benefits of streaming, I think. It’s a way for me to show people that if I can figure things out, so can they.” 👏👏👏

We have big plans as we continue to build a diverse, human-centered company and an internet open and accessible for all. But how do we enable the collaboration and risk-taking required to take Mozilla into the future? We recently developed new operating values to make sure our passion will be productive. Read on to hear on what these operating values mean for Mozilla, and how we’re ensuring we truly integrate them into our work.

From San Francisco to Bangalore to her office in Berlin, Xenia Tovchykh spends her days working with teammates all over the world⁠, and keeping all things accounting running smoothly for her fellow Mozillians. Below, Xenia explains what drew her to Mozilla from another job she loved, what she says to team members with questions about growing their careers, and how the company supports life outside of work ⁠— even across time zones.

Tony Cinotto (Product Manager), Allie Mendelson (Contingent Workforce Program Manager), and Philipp Kewisch (Add-ons Operations Manager) work on three different teams at Mozilla. But they all have something in common: They left the company, then came back. Below, they each explain the reasons for their returns, discuss the projects and challenges they’re facing now, and share why they’re excited about the future—of their own careers, and of Mozilla itself.

Here we feature product counsel (and coincidentally or not) professional magician. Excerpt: "At other companies, the relationship between Legal and Product or Engineering can be pretty adversarial—Legal is seen as an obstacle to overcome rather than a partner. But here, our relationships with other teams are incredibly strong. In part, that’s because we tend to get involved early on, and we always try to understand not only the question we’re being asked but why we’re being asked it—so that if we do have to recommend against something, we can suggest another solution that will still help our colleagues meet their goal."

While Mozilla has participated in various Pride celebrations in the past, this year our LGBTQIA+ staff (aka our Pridezilla community) considered how to honor Pride, and the consensus was clear: avoid anything that could even be perceived as pinkwashing. Because we are committed to an internet that promotes civil discourse, human dignity, and individual expression, we didn’t want Pride to be about promoting ourselves. Instead, we focused on connecting with (and celebrating) one another across Mozilla.

One year ago, we made a set of commitments around diversity and inclusion. Here's where we are today with them.

Why did Elgin-Skye McLaren join Mozilla? Because she knew that we work in the open...but that's not all. She took a few minutes to share more about why she's here. https://mzl.la/new-hires-2021-elgin-mclaren