Don’t blame Google for that. It’s Mozilla management failure.
This all might have something to do with it.
Is there any reading material online supporting this position? I would tend to agree but my opinion is fairly uninformed.
I have often thought that leading a shining beacon like Mozilla should and would be done by a previously successful executive who doesn't need the money and would like a challenge. Compensation would be $1/year, everlasting respect, and a true legacy to leave behind. But that's just my vision of panacea I suppose.
I respect Mitchell Baker's history at Mozilla but is it time for a change?
reference: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/
edit: changed phrasing and tone
The reason I thought she had been CEO for years is that I saw in the official bio that she was a co-founder and CEO. I didn't realize the timeline. I should probably learn a lot more prior to making statements like I had previously about change.
I also do have the baggage of an anti-administrative bloat bias/agenda which I am may be applying here inappropriately.
I was just really disapointed with some of the teams that were removed like Security. I know that money has to come from somewhere and seeing exec compensation go up at the same time was a hard pill to swallow.
The last year we have executive salaries from is 2018, while those cuts were in 2020. I suspect executive compensation also fell sharply, I know the number of executives is lower.
But all we get are police and skilled people who want to be paid what they're worth.
It's insane how much flak they get for the CEO making a million dollars more after signing a deal that got them hundreds of millions more dollars a year.
I think the derision comes from the fact that this is theoretically a non-profit org.
What if we apply that to engineering too? Marketing, operations, SREs ..
How do you think that would work out for Mozilla? Do you think we would have any impact if the place was run like that? Do you think we would have much talent on board?
I was trying to speak for general sentiment before, which was dumb of me.
Let me attempt to clarify my personal thinking: if for example there was a Patreon where I could give money to Mozilla engineering salaries directly, I would proudly pay $10/month. I would be willing to wager that many others would as well.
If orgs want good feels and a write off, sure 501c Mozilla donations, but let’s go beyond all that.
How about a Mozilla Security Patreon?
How about a Mozilla Rust Pateron?
My point is that there is so much good will and money, just on HN, for Mozilla engineering... can we come up with ways to fund engineering directly?
I realize there needs to be a CEO, etc, but there should also be a funding structure to pay you and your peers more, directly.
Edit: I am just using Patreon as an example of direct creator funding, other mechanisms may be more applicable.
What are you talking about? Hundreds of millions more per year? Their revenue [1] grew by 40m (520m to 562m) during the year they doubled their top exec salary. It fell by 90m the next year, earning them a loss for the first time.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Finanzierun... German Wikipedia has a nice table.
Mozilla tries hard and like every other startup or company out there, many ideas or products fail or turn out to not be profitable.
There is no magic here. If there was then all startups and all ideas would work.