MMozilla·Software Engineer

Mozilla Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through Mozilla’s website and then went through a long stretch where nothing happened—about a month of silence.

Eventually, I received an anonymous-looking form email asking me to complete a skill test. It didn’t feel personalized at all: there was no name, and it wasn’t even written with normal greeting language.

I took the test late in the evening, partly believing I’d be able to manage it and that I had little to lose. The skill test pushed me to answer three programming questions quickly and accurately. I felt confident on two of them, but the third one was where things fell apart. I got stuck and couldn’t finish it the way I needed to.

Less than twelve hours later, I received another anonymous

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