Hi David, > The hiring process, for various reasons > cannot be considered as a meritocracy
Could you expand on that a bit? John ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Bruant" <[email protected]> > To: "Alina Mierlus" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Majken Connor" <[email protected]>, "Boris Zbarsky" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:07:38 AM > Subject: Re: Mozilla community and Mozilla priorities&decisions > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- John Jensen [email protected] Product Strategist, Mozilla Corporation mobile: +1 604 218 0400 _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
