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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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dralley ◴[15 Jan 20 21:18 UTC] No.22058725[source]▶
I don't much care for Eich but that graph (as in, what it represents) is just shameful.
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aidenn0 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:19 UTC] No.22059412[source]▶
The salary of top executives has gone way up in the past 20 years or so across industries, and largely without relation to company performance.
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BrendanEich ◴[16 Jan 20 00:25 UTC] No.22060422[source]▶
Nice deflection. I'm a founder of mozilla.org, Mitchell joined 8 months after, we worked closely for 15+ years. She set the salaries with board approval, always made somewhat more than I did, I never complained. Neither of us was making more than high six figures, until after I left. Something changed, and it is not generic to "industries". No excuses!
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1. aidenn0 ◴[16 Jan 20 05:12 UTC] No.22061845[source]▶
I didn't intend for it to come off as a deflection, though I see that it would be easy to read it that way.

I agree that something changed at Mozilla, but I've seen it get justified at other previously reasonable organizations with excuses like "everyone else is doing it," or "This is still below-market rate for C-level talent." The fact that it's happening everywhere doesn't make it less nauseating.

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Mitchell could drop her salary to a "mere" 6 figures and lay off 7 fewer people, but you hardly ever see executives do things like that.