Excellent company culture except for senior leadership in Engineering - Anonymous employee GitHub Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of smart people at the company that are humble, empathetic, and driven to ship great software. Many core developers of Ruby, Rails, and Git work here and engineers here know their stuff really well. Hubbers are vocal and speak up about issues they care about. Company cares about diversity and inclusion and puts tremendous effort into it. Good benefits.

Cons

Senior engineering management changes in the last year have resulted in micro-mangement, demoralizing of teams, disrespect for the work of engineers and being tone deaf to the acual problems that engineers raise. Engineering teams can spend more effort appeasing certain leaders and figuring out how to avoid interaction with them than on soliciting customer feedback.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Remote work with some really great team mates

Cons

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