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From Left: Mike Conley, Dylan O’Toole, Ayanaa Rahman, Harshit Sohaney, Mitali Baxi, Amir Habibi, Nipun Shukla, and Daniel Nguyen<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cStudents bring a new perspective to the projects we work on, and help drive innovation\u2026 they bring a level of passion and excitement to the team,\u201d said Daniel Nguyen, an engineering manager on the Firefox Credentials team. That buzz of passion and excitement was a key part of what made this UofT career fair so engaging and successful for Mozilla.<\/p>\n
Our team spoke with students who had contributed to our open source code, actively use Firefox, and are deeply invested in the work we are doing at Mozilla. Several of our backend software engineering interns, Ayanaa Rahman and Nipun Shukla, spoke to us about the rewarding experience of talking to prospective early-in-career talent about Mozilla\u2019s core values, our principles, and their own reflections on their personal experiences interning at Mozilla.<\/p>\n
Ayanaa Rahman started her career journey with Mozilla in May of 2023. “My time at Mozilla has been incredibly enriching on both personal and professional fronts,” she said. “Immersing myself in the software development lifecycle has not only given me a sense of significant contribution but also deepened my understanding through hands-on work with real bugs and projects.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just the students that benefit from real-life experience either. Amir Habibi, an Engineering Manager on the Desktop Integrations team, says that early-in-career talent “helps move projects forward and brings fresh eyes.”<\/p>\n
Nipun Shukla shared his perspective on what our student talent can expect with Mozilla: “The things I have to do are definitely difficult but I feel extremely supported by my team and able to freely reach out and get some of the institutional knowledge that exists at a company like Mozilla.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike Conley<\/a>, a Principal Engineer on the Firefox Desktop team, provides even more insight into the scope and project work. “Student workers have this wonderful tendency to not realize how difficult what they’re tackling is \u2014 and then they just dive in and do it!”<\/p>\n Just as our students dive in, Mitali Baxi, the early career aprogram manager leading our global student worker programs, has already hired 12 students into the 26 available positions in the month between attending the career fair at Toronto and the time of posting. This is due to a great process that Mitali, in partnership with hiring teams, has created where we showcase opportunities that students want to be a part of.<\/p>\n Our biggest goal for the hiring process is to make it inclusive, enjoyable, and not too overwhelming or time-consuming for our applicants and hiring teams alike. We\u2019ve built the process with ample input, support, and investment from Amir Habibi and another Engineering Manager, Neha Kochar. Both have provided technical expertise and best-in-industry hiring practices.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just the investment from Amir and Neha that has elevated and expanded our student work and intern programs. Our entire executive team down to direct line managers, mentors, and buddies on the teams all have a deep desire to bring in talent that can explore the entire spectrum of expertise from the most senior to those only starting out in their career journeys.<\/p>\n After all, the next generation will be using technology and the internet even more than the generations before them, and so they absolutely need to be in the room where it\u2019s being built and Mozilla intends to invite them in. We will continue to invest in early-in-career talent to help shape our future and ensure that all of our products, programs and initiatives promote a safe, open, accessible internet for all.<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n Learn more about career opportunities at Mozilla Careers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How often have you been scrolling LinkedIn or a job board for open positions only to find senior level positions and not much else? Where is the investment in early-in-career … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1953,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327149],"tags":[],"coauthors":[466919,466920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}