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I&#x27;m posting anonymously for obvious reasons.<p>I&#x27;ve been working at Mozilla since its inception. And eventually left the company 2 years ago.<p>And I&#x27;m so mad.<p>Mozilla is not the Mozilla that was created almost 20 years ago. It&#x27;s not the same people there. After the Firefox 4 nightmare, they started hiring product managers from big corp. We started seeing some ex-twitter, ex-microsoft, ex-amazon joining the company. People with more professional ambitions. We didn&#x27;t know how to react to Google Chrome and the smartphone revolution. We all trusted the upper management, but upper management was slowly becoming non-mozillians.<p>And an absurd mechanic started: original engineer were busy writing difficult code. upper-management was morphing into some BS silicon valley gang. New young engineers were hired, and they thought the core of Mozilla values lied in these upper-management people. And slowly the original engineers started leaving, leaving behind this BS people with these young engineers.<p>Marketing became &quot;how to show we&#x27;re good people&quot;. LGBT, women right, etc etc. Who gives a shit about Mozilla standing for these values? It&#x27;s all marketing. The real only value, the manifesto, burnt a long time ago.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, LGBT and such are important, but that&#x27;s not the job of Mozilla.<p>The last blow: getting rid of Brendan. Maybe he didn&#x27;t have the same values employees had about LGBT, but fuck this. People in the silicon valley *love* being offended. And that thing was just too good of a fight for them. Brendan was the last bastion standing.<p>I&#x27;m so so so mad.<p>Mitchell trusted the wrong people. We were seeing all these ambitious silicon-valley-puppets taking the position of PM, director, etc etc…<p>Got damn, all we wanted is to make Gecko amazing, light, in a lightweight simple browser. But all these stupid features that were landing on our head…<p>I&#x27;m so mad…<p>Rant over.