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Thursday, October 11th, 2007

If you’re looking for a job, I bet Mozilla’s hiring.

Mozilla seems to be having a problem retaining their employees. Last week, the only two developers paid to work on Thunderbird quit, and today Firefox build engineer Paul Reed announced that he’s leaving. I wonder what’s up…

Mozilla seems to be having a problem retaining their employees. Last week, the only two developers paid to work on Thunderbird quit, and today Firefox build engineer Paul Reed announced that he’s leaving. I wonder what’s up…


3 Responses to “If you’re looking for a job, I bet Mozilla’s hiring.”

  1. Asa Dotzler Says:

    I don’t think anything in particular “is up”.

    We were 10 people 4 years ago. We’re approaching 125 today. We’ve had a very few people leave the organization in that four years.

    In the same week that Scott and David announced their departure, we hired a half dozen additional full-time staff. Mozilla’s growing fast and we’re early in ramping up major new initiatives so my guess is that pace is going to accelerate rather than slow down — at least for a while.

    But, yes, if you’re interested in Firefox, the Open Web, Mobile, or Email and Messaging, please do let us know. We’re always hiring.

    - A

  2. Asa Dotzler Says:

    Oh, and I forgot to mention, congrats on the NN9 candidate.

  3. Christopher Finke Says:

    Asa: I didn’t mean to imply that Mozilla is dying or anything like that; my “I wonder what’s up” was more along the lines of “I wonder what startup we’re going to see in the next 6 months that is headed by a bunch of ex-Mozilla employees.”


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