Mozilla's internship program

Over the years, Mozilla went from hiring only a handful of interns to now having over 30 students during the summer. They come from different academic backgrounds and different countries, with the shared objective of improving the web.
At Mozilla, our goal is to expose the students to our open source environment, and therefore demonstrate the importance of a community driven project.
What Mozilla offers is more than a summer internship: it's an open invitation to becoming a meaningful contributor to the project. And when we say that your work matters, we actually mean it. Let's take the recent release of Firefox 3.6 for example. All of our 2009 engineering interns actually committed code that became part of Firefox 3.6! Where else can you say that your work positively impacted more than 350 million users?

But don't take my words for it, go to our interns website and check out our interns presentations.

We also have both full-time and internship positions available on our careers page. Don't be shy, check it out and send us your resume!

Starting next week, we'll be attending a few career fairs and also hosting some info sessions, and we hope to meet you then! For more information regarding our program, you can always drop by #interns on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).

The Mozilla interns now have their own website

The interns website is now live! What is this, shall you ask?

Well, Mozilla has a strong internship program. Period. Over the length of their stay with us, our interns work on highly visible projects and are immersed in our amazing community from day one. The question was how do we share our interns experience with people outside Mozilla ; that is students that would be interested in interning with us in the future.

The solution was interns.mozilla.com

You will be able to browse through all the projects our interns have worked on, find out more about our internship program (co-op opportunities are available too), figure out what schools Mozilla will be visiting, and much more. We're also in the process of adding videos from our interns presentations (coming soon).

A huge thanks to Morgamic for his amazing patience and all his technical expertise. Chris Howse, Sean Martell, Bret Reckard, Erica McClure, and Dan Portillo have been amazing, as usual.

But none of this would have been possible without our 2009 interns who have provided helpful feedback along the way, and played by the rules for the creation of this site. Thank you guys, and it's been a true pleasure having you in our office!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me

Interns Presentations -- Schedule

Did you ever wonder what types of projects interns work on during their internship at Mozilla? If so, you've now got the chance to be in the front row and watch the interns chat live about their projects on Air Mozilla. We'll be having the following interns presenting this week:

* 08/25 at 1pm PST
Aaron Train(QA)
RJ Walsh (Web Dev)
David Tran (IT)
Anant Narayanan (Labs)

* 08/27 at 2pm PST
Jeremy Hiatt (L10n)
Matthew Noorenberghe (Firefox)
Irina Calciu (platform)

Can't make it? Don't worry, we're also going to have the videos available on the interns website in a few weeks.

College Recruiting for '10 season...

This Fall, Mozilla will be attending the following career fairs:
- CMU on Sept. 15, 2009
- MIT on Sept. 17, 2009
- UT Austin on Sept. 23, 2009
- Stanford on Oct. 6, 2009
- University of Washington on Oct. 29, 2009

The schedule will also be posted on our interns website that should go live by the end of August. The website will provide information on what one can expect by getting an internship at Mozilla, and the type of projects available.

If you're passionate about the web in general and would like to make it a better and safer place, then we definitely want to hear from you. This year, we've hired students in all of our groups: platform (backend development), l10n (Localization), Labs, Firefox (focusing on frontend development for the chrome of the browser), QA, Build, IT, Marketing, AMO (Add-ons), Web Dev, and even Mobile!

You'll get a chance to also watch the presentations of our current interns in a few weeks. They've done an awesome job!

For more info, please feel free to email me!
Until then, we hope you'd stop by our booth and say "hi".

Interns Website

In our willingness to always remain open and share as much info as possible with folks who aren't part of Mozilla, we've decided to create a website for our interns classes this year. The idea is to provide upcoming interns with additional details about our internship program, and therefore create a portal where past and new students can interact. The project is just starting and it's kind of fun to collaborate closely with our interns 09 on this stuff.

The website will include some general info about our internship program, what to expect from Mozilla, but also the possibility to interact with past interns. We'll also have a schedule of the career fairs will be attending in the Fall and the Winter. More importantly, interested students will be able to check out what cool projects our past interns have worked on.

While the project is still in "phase I", we should have a finished product before the end of the summer. Stay tuned for more info!

Monte Carlo Night - Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

I can hardly believe that Monte Carlo Night is actually starting in a few hours!
To rewind a bit, this whole journey started when my friend - Dan Portillo - got nominated for the Man & Woman of the Year title with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Read more info about this program here.

We've all been working very hard for this event and we're now all anxious to see how the night is going to turn out. But given the efforts we've put into it, Monte Carlo Night won't be anything less than marvelous!

Hope to see many of you there!

Has it been a year already?

Time always seems to fly by when you're having a great time, and I can still vividly remember the first day the interns stepped one foot onto Mozilla Land. Based on my experience as a CF (i.e. Community Facilitator; aka an RA (Resident Assistant)) during my time at SCU, I was asked to take over our internship program. What a blast it was! The level of passion and excitement of the students was highly contagious!
This year, we're kicking our program off next Monday (May 4th), and we'll have 30 interns joining us for a few months in almost every groups: platform, labs, firefox, marketing, QA, AMO, marketing, legal, IT, build, L10n, security, mobile, metrics, and web dev!

If you're considering joining us next summer, please feel free to contact me at julie[at]mozilla[dot]com. Bret and I will take a little break for now and we'll resume college recruiting (for internships) in September/October. We're however continuously accepting applications for entry level positions. For more info, check out our career page.

Have a great summer, and we look forward to receiving your application for summer '10.