Ever since the CEO stepped down, the company feels to me like it's heading south. Many of the teams are floating on their own without managers/directors or any form of leadership.
They put in product managers who have zero vision to be in charge of managing important features of GitHub.
From being fairly transparent, they have started a "hush-hush" culture where you don't know where and how decisions are being made.
This is not at all a good time to join GitHub. They hire and they fire very quickly if you don't fit into their culture of all-talk and get no real work done. Politics is heavily rewarded. Honesty and speaking your mind is frowned upon.
It's time to take a closer look at the so-called values that GitHub claims to stand for.
I applied for a Senior Software Engineer role, and they immediately sent me into a take-home coding exercise. The task was to implement an HTTP service for storing and accessing data. I completed it quite easily, including some additional unit tests
The interview process included two HR screens, followed by a Data Structures and Algorithms problem-solving Zoom video call. It also included low-level design questions. I received positive feedback for these rounds and then got an invite for the ne
This was likely the worst interview process I've ever experienced with a large company. The interviews themselves were fine, but the cycle and schedule were completely unorganized. It was difficult to understand the roadmap and get a sense of what w
I applied for a Senior Software Engineer role, and they immediately sent me into a take-home coding exercise. The task was to implement an HTTP service for storing and accessing data. I completed it quite easily, including some additional unit tests
The interview process included two HR screens, followed by a Data Structures and Algorithms problem-solving Zoom video call. It also included low-level design questions. I received positive feedback for these rounds and then got an invite for the ne
This was likely the worst interview process I've ever experienced with a large company. The interviews themselves were fine, but the cycle and schedule were completely unorganized. It was difficult to understand the roadmap and get a sense of what w