Hi Alina,
Le 14/09/2012 02:09, Alina Mierlus a écrit :
The thing is, Mozilla is a meritocracy (or at least is trying to be
as much as possible)
I'm slightly changing of topic, just to share a comment I think is
relevant on that particular point.
I've had discussions with several employees who shared with me that they
felt somewhat guilty to be there, because they hadn't been a volunteer
contributor before being an employee. They felt that in a way, they
didn't deserve to be there, or at least deserved less than other people
to be there.
I don't feel I know enough about Mozilla to judge whether that guilt is
justified or not (but for sure, the people who were sharing that were
clearly competent and had no reason to feel that).
Being an employee, by the fact that it allocates so much time to work on
Mozilla projects de-facto provides some authority over the direction of
the project(s) being worked on. The hiring process, for various reasons
cannot be considered as a meritocracy, so Mozilla is not really a
meritocracy.
I would like to note that although on paper a meritocracy sounds like a
goal to achieve, it may not be so. From what I have seen, meritocracies
tend to attract like-minded people and consequently drive themselves
against diversity.
David
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