GitHub Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.5

81% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Thomas Dohmke

30% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated GitHub with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. GitHub is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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36 reviews
3.0
Mar 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A while ago it was an aggressively cool place with a lot of vision. Now... it looks good on a resume?

Cons

The leadership confuses 'chasing growth' for vision. The most innovative products/features are dead or KTLO while leadership mindlessly chases Copilot (which is already being outdone by Cursor and Windsurf). They are also pushing for 'performance culture' which would be fine, except they don't state what that means. They're just making folks anxious and ruining morale for no good reason.

3.0
Sep 9, 2024

Octosad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working on something that millions of people use and still mostly like.

Cons

More time and effort goes to padding resumes with questionable rewrites, “leadership”, and AI functionality then is spent thinking about the health of GitHub and its users as a platform.

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