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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 9 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source | bottom
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petagonoral ◴[15 Jan 20 21:03 UTC] No.22058534[source]▶
in 2018, mozilla had 368 million USD in assets:

2018 financials: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201...

wow, 2.5 million for the executive chair of Mozilla in 2018. is that person really bringing 2.5 millions dollar worth of value to the company. this is in addition to the 2.x million from the year before. 10s of million exfiltrated out of a non-profit by one person over the last few years. nice job if you can get it.

edit: 1 million USD in 2016 and before.jumped to 2.3 million in 2017! pg8 of form 990 available at https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/about/public-records/

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EduardoBautista ◴[15 Jan 20 21:12 UTC] No.22058647[source]▶
I don't see how that is an unreasonable salary for the CEO of a highly influential tech company. CEO pay for other large tech companies is much higher.
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1. dangerlibrary ◴[15 Jan 20 21:19 UTC] No.22058726[source]▶
I'll do it for a cool 800k.
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3. throwawaypa123 ◴[15 Jan 20 21:33 UTC] No.22058920[source]▶
I hope you are joking.

If someone said I'll do full-stack dev for 150k instead 400k at google, how would you take that question?

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4. coldtea ◴[15 Jan 20 21:42 UTC] No.22059036[source]▶
If the position wasn't that challenging to begin with, like this one, I'd hire them!
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5. lucb1e ◴[15 Jan 20 21:58 UTC] No.22059207[source]▶
Sure, I'll do dev for 150k if they're fine with me remoting in from Germany. Currently earning a third of that as security consultant which is on average better paid than developer afaik. I could retire at 37 instead of 47.

You see, I'm fine donating money to a lot of places because I feel like I earn a lot (and I earn about 50k/year, not 150k and I never expect to earn 400k). The Internet Archive, Climeworks, OpenStreetMap, a local hackerspace, random sites or tools that I found useful, etc. But when I see that we need a hundred thousand average-sized donations to cover the cost of a single employee in a non-profit (what is even the definition of that word if not to not turn out profit to its owners?) then we're all just financing a pretty face instead of the product we love. One can argue all one wants about it being the market value or competitive offers or whatever, but if you are only in it for the money, Mozilla should not be the company for you. I'm not financing that. This is also why I don't donate to Wikipedia: the money doesn't actually go to Wikipedia the platform.

6. hinkley ◴[15 Jan 20 22:57 UTC] No.22059754{3}[source]▶
You know those meetings you hate? Quadruple them, add more customers and some unsavory financiers. Then sprinkle it with a bunch of business trips where you never get to see the city.

Think about that the next time you're thinking how much of a paycut you'd be willing to take if it meant you didn't have to talk to that guy every week.

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7. staticassertion ◴[16 Jan 20 05:49 UTC] No.22061998{4}[source]▶
Or just let the company tank, take a raise, and fire 70 people to make up the difference?
8. coldtea ◴[16 Jan 20 08:42 UTC] No.22062707{4}[source]▶
>You know those meetings you hate? Quadruple them, add more customers and some unsavory financiers. Then sprinkle it with a bunch of business trips where you never get to see the city.

That argument is about "how hard/bothersome" the work is. That's not how compensation is set, however.

I, and most developers I presume, also don't like sweeping streets or cleaning gas station toilets (much more than business trips and tons of customer meetings), but nobody would pay millions to some gas station toilet attendant.

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9. hinkley ◴[16 Jan 20 17:31 UTC] No.22066738{5}[source]▶
Grandparent said this is not a challenging position. That’s the comment I responded to.