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LWD@lemm.ee to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

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LWD@lemm.ee to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago
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This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.
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  • renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Now that Google isn’t allowed to pay them default search engine money, I think this was expected.

    Ideologically I think it’s a good thing the US government is challenging Google’s monopolistic practices. Unfortunately, that money was a massive percentage of Mozilla’s income.

    It really was short-sighted of them to put so many eggs into one basket.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      Mozilla frankly could use some serious restructuring. If Brave was able to get a decent market share overnight surely a well known company can make a come back.

      Mozilla has a management problem

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        Hear hear. Trim the fat, and start at the head.

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    Curious.

    I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla’s job board. They don’t post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people…

    Oct 30 2024:

    • Senior Product Manager, Sync Ecosystem
    • Staff Software Engineer - Credential Management

    Oct 31 2024:

    • Fixed Term PR/Communications Manager

    Nov 1 2024:

    • Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
    • Senior Software Engineer, Services
    • Staff Test Engineer
    • Senior Director of Product, Firefox Growth
    • Senior Product Manager, Sync Ecosystem
    • Staff Software Engineer, OS Integrations
    • Senior Data Engineer
    • Client Analytics Manager
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer, øDin GenAI Bug Bounty
    • Staff Desktop Systems Specialist
    • Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym
    • Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
    • Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fakespot
    • Staff Mobile Product Manager

    Nov 4 2024:

    • Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer, Solo
    • Senior Software Engineer
    • Senior Staff Product Manager, Search
    • Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
    • Senior Front-End Engineer, Firefox

    Nov 5 2024:

    • Staff Technical Program Manager, Firefox Enhancements
  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    once more, how much does that garbage ceo costs?

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        The CEO who got paid that much has quit. We don’t yet know what the salary of the new CEO is going to be.

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  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zone
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    We’re gonna end up with a Blink monopoly, aren’t we?

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      My hope is that Mozilla stops working on Firefox and the Linux Foundation creates a new Firefox fork and finances the project. It would be the official Linux browser.

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        I do not see why you think the Linux Foundation could stomp 500+ devs out of the ground and do a better job. That’s three times the size of the current Linux Foundation. Nevermind that the Linux Foundation is purely non-profit. Paying a living wage to that many devs is pretty much just not going to be possible.

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