Because hiring more people costs money and volunteers are free?
Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base
by mister_hn on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:46AM
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yeah but then don't bother us with missing contributors.
Somehow someone has to live and code for food. Not everybody has the luxury of working as volunteer.
Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base
by lonelappde on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:46PM
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No company has the luxury of paying employees with money they don't have.
> I'd really like to work for Mozilla on Mozilla products, but somehow the interview process is broken.
I've managed to go through 3 interviews (2 technical, one with the team-coordinator) but then was rejected because they've found some other with more years of relevant (?) experience on the topic for the position.
I'm sorry I don't really understand. They interviewed you and found other people who (they thought) were more qualified. In what way is the interview process broken?
> Now they write this. So my question is: why don't you open more positions, letting people be hired (and paid) to work on products, instead of looking for charitable work from volunteers?
I can only assume that it's because they think there are better places they think they should put their resources.
Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base
by mnoorenberghe on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:11AM
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> Now they write this.
This page was written Apr 11, 2011
Re:Contributing to the Mozilla code base
by giancarlostoro on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:10AM
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My hope is that they do that once they offer a premium version of Firefox.
I've managed to go through 3 interviews (2 technical, one with the team-coordinator) but then was rejected because they've found some other with more years of relevant (?) experience on the topic for the position.
Now they write this. So my question is: why don't you open more positions, letting people be hired (and paid) to work on products, instead of looking for charitable work from volunteers?