$450 million is 2,250 people on $200,000 salaries.
The pay rise the CEO took over the last five years is equal to an additional 12 engineers receiving the above salary.
The pay rise the CEO took over the last five years is equal to an additional 12 engineers receiving the above salary.
I specifically picked 2,250 engineers because that appears to be more than double what Mozilla currently has. The entire Mozilla payroll is about $280 million with the remaining $170 million (!!) being spent on miscellaneous junk.
Let’s stop apologising for mismanagement and thinking throwing more money at Mozilla is going to fix its problems.
Do you have any idea how many tests are run across all platforms for every commit? [1]
The CI bill alone is huge.
Mozilla foundation has about 650 people which gives it a revenue per employee of around 600K, which is less than most SV companies.
The overall corporate spending looks very reasonable. You can look at their non-profit report: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...
From their report, their fully loaded cost is around $280K/FTE which is reasonable for anywhere in SF/SV.