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anon1007··on “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”
> though I'll say I do make more now, at a for-profit company

That's what I meant by underpaid. It's well known that Mozilla pays below-market rate salaries. Instead it deceptively uses its supposed non-profit status (actually a for-profit owned by a non-profit shell) to motivate people to take a pay-cut by working there, meanwhile Baker and a handful of others at the top are getting rich (even by Bay Area standards) off their under-compensated, altruistically-minded labor.

Disgusting.

anon1007··on “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230668

Notice also that this topic was quickly flagged off the front page, just like the linked one.

anon1007··on “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”
Exactly! Why are Mitchell Baker and other execs at Mozilla being rewarded for lack-luster performance with nearly $1 million a year in compensation, meanwhile the actual programmers that toil on Mozilla's products go underpaid or even unpaid?
anon1007··on “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”
Relevant discussion on the issue of Mozilla's outlandish executive compensation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101637

tl;dr: Mozilla is clearly failing as an organization, its programmers are underpaid, and its flagship product continues to shake down its users for donations, meanwhile its executives still get paid upwards of $800k a year for their mismanagement.