I would not work for Mozilla for that reason alone. I don't think such a question has a place in a job interview. I also would never ask such a question of an applicant. TMC is a pretty diverse group but we are so by accident, not by design and we take people on merit, not on their level of activism.

> "What are you personally doing to encourage diversity?"

What? Are you serious? After browsing through the comments, this here is what really ticks me off and solidifies that mozilla/firefox is in a rotting place right now. sad.

Yeah, serious, I mean I don't disagree with the overall goal of improving diversity in our industry. It's not really improving on its own. But as an established white male who is just an engineer, not a manager or HR staff or director of any kind, etc. almost anything I say in response to that question will just come across as patronizing ("some of my best friends are woman or minority engineers!")

I suspect the right answer could be: get out of the way. I did, they hired someone else. I dodged a bullet.

I don't think this embrace of social justice stuff has much to do with Mozilla's rot, BTW. Any business without a clear profit/success model and a reasonably sized workforce will just crumble under empire building and competing agendas. The "SJW" stuff is only notorious in our community because of the way the Eich stuff went down.

I would have been willing to work for half of what I am now to help make the open internet succeed (well, also to work from home, and to get to work with some friends, and with Rust, and other perks). But that whole interview really soured me. I dodged a bullet anyways.