Hiring is hard. Their lawyers aren't going to let a Mozilla employee comment publicly.
Send me (off the mailing list) what you sent them and I can give you my two cents of advice, privately, if you want! Kevin On Oct 24, 2013 8:19 AM, "David Piepgrass" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Mozilla is going to hire another engineer to work on Rust! As we head >> toward Rust 1.0 we are looking for a motivated individual with serious >> chops to help us grind through the remaining blocking bugs. Enthusiasm >> for Servo will also be looked upon with great favor. See all the gory >> details here: https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oMiEXfwp >> >> I was a bit shocked to receive this rejection after just 2 hours and 15 > minutes: > > >Thank you for taking the time to apply at Mozilla. We are always looking > >for help creating great software and appreciate your offer to work with > us! > >Unfortunately, we're not always able to find a match within our > organization > >for everyone's skills and experience. After reviewing your application we > >did not find a fit at this time, and as a result will not be able to move > forward > >further. > > If you don't want to give a reason, that's you're perogative, I guess, but > this message doesn't even acknowledge that I applied for a *specific* > position. I don't believe in 2 hours and 15 minutes someone actually > checked if I was eligible for each of the available openings, not that I'm > interested in most of the other positions anyhow. > > Also, I would at least like to know that the Rust team itself rejected me > and not some generic HR person. > > >Also, if you are looking for ways to help build a better internet, there > is no > >easier way than running Firefox Aurora as your daily browser and filing > >bugs and/or sending us your feedback. > > Getting hired by Mozilla could have changed my life. So this is a bit of a > tacky way to finish the rejection, don't you think? > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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