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> When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about
by throwawayzilla 3y ago
> When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."
I was working at Mozilla when she made this comment -- shortly after laying off ~25% of the fucking company -- and it was the final straw for me. I can't speak to whether it was the final straw for others as well, but I can say that in the span of about 8-9 months after those layoffs every single person on my team, many who had been there 5+ years, quit and took "normal" tech industry jobs that typically paid 2-2.5x more than Mozilla. Apparently in Baker's mind it's OK to ask the people doing the actual work to take a massive discount to their compensation for ideological reasons, but when it interferes with her lavish lifestyle it's suddenly unthinkable.
She is truly an anchor around Mozilla's neck, and at this point I've just sort of grudgingly accepted that she'll only leave once she's drained every last drop of blood she can get from the company and from the well-meaning and dedicated people trying to make a genuinely independent web browser. All I can hope is that some sort of phoenix (get it?) manages to arise from the ashes when that finally happens.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI applaud your decision! Need more people standing on principle
- chii 3y ago> She is truly an anchor around Mozilla's neck perhaps it's because this is what google wants mozilla to be - a lame duck that cannot compete against chrome.
- candiddevmike 3y agoThis is a really interesting possibility. A crippled competitor is ideal--keeps Chrome ahead, but still have a multi platform competitor to point at when the DoJ comes knocking.
- borgunit2 3y agoDing ding. We have a winner.
- ojbyrne 3y agoAlso interesting because once upon a time Microsoft did that with Apple.
- Grazester 3y agoHey, I guess if Google stopped shoveling money into Mozilla then they wouldn't have any money to pay her and she might leave then. I guess we can blame Google then! Is there anyway we could blame Google also for the unrest in the middle east?
- bdd8f1df777b 3y agoDoes Google have any say on who is at the helm of Mozilla? A genuine question, not a rhetorical one.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoYou think the money bags come without strings?
- times_trw 3y agoNo, in the same way MS didn't have say who is at the head of OpenAI.
- golergka 3y agoGood idea. But if it's true, then who played the same trick with Google and Sundar Pichai?
- mattmaroon 3y agoMozilla itself is a Phoenix (and I miss that) that arose from ashes so maybe!
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoFirefox was originally Phoenix until Phoenix Tech. made a stink over trademark. Hence why the fox has a flaming tail and the e-mail client is a thunderbird.