I would apply, but I don't understand why they have "remote" but then tied to a specific country. I live in Korea and I'd understand some kind of a problem with time zones but before that I lived in Sweden and then I couldn't have applied either.
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Usually it's tied to employment regulations, funding requirements, the administrative overhead of dealing with a foreign tax code.
If you really want to make it work, open a loan out company in the jurisdiction of the enploying company. The employing company hires your loan out corporation, and your loan out corporation then pays you. That way your loan out corporation does all the work of paying and managing you in a different country. And the employing organization doesn't have to worry about any administration, overhead, legal issues. You're taking all of that on. I've seen it work. But most companies don't want to volunteer for that extra work, having a loan out is very helpful.
why not just open a company on your country then enter that company into an agreement with the hiring company, it's not like you can't do international business easily
Not easily
tax gets complicated
Legal business contract stuff, most likely. Different countries have different employment law requirements, so Mozilla would realistically need legal representation in those places. That gets pricy fast.
I'm also excluded, for what it's worth.
I mean, you can't "employ" someone but you can enter into a contract with a business a business that happens to be a single person business.
Depends where you are. There are tax implications for this too. look at IR35 in the UK
If you like conspiracies you could ask yourself how much work on Firefox could have been done if Mozilla had invested their ad billions globally.
I'm not a tech fella -- just a refugee from the Reddit collapse trying to find my way in a social media environment that feels more authentic, less corporate, and more free. So -- here's wishing all of you good luck in this position but for me, I'm just amazed that a major browser has the Fediverse on the radar. Isn't this kind of a big deal?
Mozilla doesn't just make Firefox. At its core, Mozilla is a non-profit foundation with basically the goal of making the internet a better place for everyone.
And well, the Fediverse is an independent push for making social media better for everyone. And social media is an important part of the internet, so it's certainly in the range of things that Mozilla's donors would expect that donation money to be used.
AAA organization making a lemmy instance? I'd say so.
I have this huge fear that working for an actual good cause that I admire would make me feel constantly guilty that I'm not doing enough, or doing a good enough job. I find a lot of comfort in knowing I work for a soulsucking for profit corporation.
And yes, I also hate that I feel this way
They're a former client. (Happenstance hit up old contact yesterday to pitch my current company)
Incredible humans. Meritocracy Everyone has a voice. And they get shit done. It's almost like open source community plus money is good.
Where does Mozilla money come from?
Basically, Google.
Which is scary since Google could cut off the funding at any point. Mozilla have been trying to find alternative revenue streams (like their VPN service) but almost all of their funding still comes from Google.
I wish more people would subscribe to their VPN service. I know that there's a lot of controversy about whether commercial VPNs actually provide any value, but I subscribe as a way to basically donate $60 a year to a good cause with the service as a nice bonus. It's not the best VPN option, or the cheapest, but it's pretty good and pretty cheap, and I'm happy to know the money is going to support a free and open web.
Their US compensation tiers are not well-calibrated.
Interviewed with a recruiter for a senior role and realized the same. On top of that, the recruiter couldn’t answer some questions I had about the role, nor would connect me with someone who could but wanted me to do a coding round first. Overall not good experience. Later learned anecdotally that work culture at Mozilla isn’t great. I love what Mozilla is trying to do, use Firefox as my primary browser, and wanted to contribute my time to supporting the company, but came away disappointed.
I've been working there a long time, there are valid complaints, but poor work culture isn't one I've normally heard. Of course it depends a lot on the specific manager, so I won't deny specific anecdotal experiences. But generally I'd say the work culture is quite healthy.
Yeah Mozilla is only a shell of what it once was. They need some fresh blood
Yeah wow, hard to keep up with the rest of big tech without stock compensation.
Their EU compensation is excellent. Nearly as good as FAANG.
Absolutely moving to this instance when it's up. Love seeing them invest so much into it!
No pay listed?
Positions like this often have very negotiable pay and for the employer it's usually way more important to find the right person for the job than to find someone who's within the budget.