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A while ago a hiring manager allegedly from Mozilla Vancouver posted a long rant that he went through 60 interviews yet couldn't find a junior dev which was dow

A while ago a hiring manager allegedly from Mozilla Vancouver posted a long rant that he went through 60 interviews yet couldn't find a junior dev which was downvoted to oblivion with angry comments. He shortly deleted all of his comments since then but reading this employees comments on slashdot makes me fit together the puzzle pieces....Mozilla has become a trust fund for incompetent people to earn a cheque every month. Google Chrome has really done a number on the browser market and surpassed the 25% mark for quite some time while Firefox has been dwindling to irrelevance. Failed to even eat into IE marketshare. https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0 https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

ygjb 11y ago
Sigh. That thread was my thread. * It was for a senior security engineer, not a junior dev * I looked at 63 candidates (as in applicants / resumes) * IIRC I screen interviewed around 10 * IIRC we advanced around 4 to the full interview process I deleted my comments for 3 reasons: * Someone else took the initiative to link my comments to the Mozilla Vancouver office, and implied that we tried to fill that position locally * Despite identifying in my initial comment that it was an exceptional circumstance people were acting like it was the norm * In my initial comment I said interviewing 63 candidates, not reviewing 63 candidates; after the thread blew up I revised it to reviewed, but it's the internet :/ Mea culpa, but hiring qualified security people is really hard these days, and has been for years. One other very important note - when we were filling that role the guidance was the the position should be filled in one of our offices, not remotely. Once that restriction was removed, the position was filled almost immediately.

ygjb 11y ago

Sigh. That thread was my thread. * It was for a senior security engineer, not a junior dev * I looked at 63 candidates (as in applicants / resumes) * IIRC I screen interviewed around 10 * IIRC we advanced around 4 to the full interview process I deleted my comments for 3 reasons: * Someone else took the initiative to link my comments to the Mozilla Vancouver office, and implied that we tried to fill that position locally * Despite identifying in my initial comment that it was an exceptional circumstance people were acting like it was the norm * In my initial comment I said interviewing 63 candidates, not reviewing 63 candidates; after the thread blew up I revised it to reviewed, but it's the internet :/ Mea culpa, but hiring qualified security people is really hard these days, and has been for years. One other very important note - when we were filling that role the guidance was the the position should be filled in one of our offices, not remotely. Once that restriction was removed, the position was filled almost immediately.