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      3.6

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (463 total reviews)
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      Thomas Dohmke

      50% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

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      GitHub has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 463 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GitHub employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      463 reviews
      2.0
      Nov 15, 2020

      It is a mess.

      Marketing
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      Pros

      ICs here are brilliant. The brand has a way of attracting some of the most talented people you’ll ever work with.

      Cons

      Leading all those smart people in one direction is apparently hard. Product slips and changes direction constantly, putting customers at risk and affecting sales morale. CEO appears to struggle getting a handle on the right level of involvement and communicating vision for the company, while leadership deals with his whims. Also its really, really not diverse, especially leadership.

      3.0
      Nov 5, 2020

      Resting on reputation at this point

      Marketing
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      • Life changing pay + benefits + stipends • Remote first organization, home office setup • Extremely talented ICs - some of the smartest people I've worked with • Passionate legacy employees • World class products & experiences • Opportunity to learn and grow • MSFT acquisition added much more resources

      Cons

      GitHub is no longer the friendly, employee first driven company it had built it's reputation on. Since the MSFT acquisition, the environment has changed drastically, leaving behind very few remnants of once a thriving culture. • Cliquey. Very personality driven culture; character is less important. • Not a lot of empathy. Demanding hours & workloads increase by the day. • Constant change without much transparency. Lots of re-orgs. • Review process is broken with no ability to respond to critique. • Fail-fast, fail-small mentality, with little margin for error • Does not value diversity! • GitHub actively has an open ICE contract. • Women and POC have an incredibly high turn over rate and are paid significantly less than their white colleagues. • There is only 9% diversity in leadership. • ERGs do a majority of the labor to push diverse agendas and equity.

      3.0
      Oct 23, 2020

      Great pay and benefits, slipping values

      Community manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - the ICs are amazing. Some of the best people I've worked with - pay and benefits are great

      Cons

      - have an active contract with ICE - becoming more corporate all the time - lost the GitHub magic

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