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Even though I’d been using Firefox for a half a dozen years and have been working in tech for a decade, there was a lot I didn’t know about Mozilla until recently. Judging from the questions I’ve been fielding since I accepted the position, you don’t know either.
Mozilla is a non-profit. Unlike Google and Microsoft, Mozilla doesn’t have a stock symbol. Mozilla Foundation wholly owns Mozilla Corporation which exists to employ me and the rest of the talented folks there to support the open web.
How does Mozilla make money? Most of the revenues come from that little search box in the upper right-hand corner of Firefox. Search engines (Google, Bing) pay for placement. Those revenues are used to pursue the mission to push the web forward.
Mozilla is extremely friendly to remote workers. Of the ~400 employees, about 225 of them are remote. They have an excellent culture for keeping everyone connected like quarterly all-hands where everyone comes out to the HQ in Mountain View, CA. Please do check out the careers page. Even if you don’t see the exact fit for you, send in a resume. If we find an awesome person, we’ll find a spot for them. For extra credit, send me a ping on twitter so I can flag you in the hiring database.
5 comments
clouserw says:
Jun 28, 2011
The URL says four things but the title says three. What didn’t make the cut?
Crystal Beasley says:
Jun 29, 2011
Good lord and little fishes! Everyone has been stressing about what the fourth bullet point was. I’ll spill.
It was about diversity at Mozilla.
I couldn’t figure out how to write it in short form that didn’t sound like I was shilling some terrible HR statement required by law. I decided it was worthy of its own post whenever I could speak to the subject with more authority.
That said… Mozilla needs more ladies, more ethnicities, more folks in general that have a different viewpoint. We spent a lot of time in our private offsite last week discussing how we could do more than lip service to make that happen. I hope to give concrete examples of our progress soon.
Alexander says:
Sep 8, 2011
What is Mozilla’s current relationship to AOL? Is there any truth to this story?
Crystal Beasley says:
Sep 8, 2011
AOL? Really? I’m entertained by this comment. That link from 2002 is as outdated as their ill-fated business strategy.
Seriously though, if a business relationship does exists (and it may), I’ve not heard mention of it. The majority of revenue comes from the partnership with Google. Conspiracy theorists would be well advised to dig into that.
the Cucumber says:
Jun 27, 2012
[...] some feedback. Until then we switched back and forth between making coffee and coding. When Crystal, the UX designer from Portland, came, we quickly pitched the project to her, completely [...]