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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 4 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.354s | source
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sstangl ◴[15 Jan 20 23:42 UTC] No.22060115[source]▶
I'm one of the 70. There were no signs that this was imminent, although Mozilla has been struggling financially for many years. I expected that it would happen eventually; I'm relatively well-prepared for it; and it's not too shocking. I did however expect that there would be some warning signs in the lead-up, but that was not the case.

I was working on Cranelift, the WebAssembly compiler that is also a plausible future backend for Rust debug mode. Before that, I worked on the SpiderMonkey JITs for 9 years. If anyone has need for a senior compiler engineer with 10 years of experience writing fast, parallel code, please do let me know.

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1. andreasgal ◴[16 Jan 20 01:37 UTC] No.22060867[source]▶
Shoot me an email agal at apple. Also feel free to give my email to anyone else affected.
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2. krambs ◴[16 Jan 20 01:58 UTC] No.22060982[source]▶
That's cool.
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4. samat ◴[16 Jan 20 21:15 UTC] No.22069029[source]▶
For others who are interested in who's the parent is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gal