GitHub reviews

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

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
1.0
Aug 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are incredible and work from home. Yep, that covers the Pros.

Cons

Management can make or ruin a company. When I started we had a great Mgmt team, so positive! All hands meetings, people being promoted and rewarded for hard work. Now, those people have all left. This new MGMT team came in like Scar from the lion king. Far less promotions, All Hands meetings are gone, this new CEO Thomas Dohmke lied to everyone saying they were doubling up the merit cycle rewards, in reality, he cut it in half, people are now numbers. Hard work does not matter. They make you get peer reviews but they carry no weight. Turnover is at an alarming rate and will continue. Worst of all, they punish you for moving. They will rip away 10-30% of your pay if you leave the Bay Area. This company has lost its way. I wont be shocked if it goes down in flames soon. Customer service is all gone. Its a shame. Github had something great here. It was the place to be and work. Now, it's just a job. I wont be here much longer and wont give a notice. They dont deserve that respect. Please do not work here, you will regret it!

3.0
Jun 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Strong culture of empathy and kindness. Remote first work allows for great flexibility and work/life balance.

Cons

Difficult to have hard conversations because it's not acceptable to criticize one other. Company and leadership are 70% white despite claiming to embrace diversity, inclusion & belonging.

3.0
Apr 5, 2017

A company of extremes

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Commitment to a long-term, community-first strategy - Consistently turns down short term revenue in favor of doing what is right for GitHub's developer community - Smartest people I've ever worked with - Quality of work is valued above the scope of work delivered, which results in shipping fewer, better features/projects - This is one of the most important companies in the world in terms of its ability to make a positive impact - Builders and creators are recognized and valued as they should be

Cons

- It can be scary and confusing for people who don't understand that GitHub's history of operating as a meritocracy has created a sort of authority hierarchy distinct from the org-chart. Does the opinion of your boss or department head matter? Depending on where you sit in the company the answer might be "no" which means it can be scary not knowing whether or not you're doing a good job as evaluated by the people who actually matter within the company. - Internal communication could be better. - There are some inexperienced members of the executive team, and it is understaffed. - Lots of big, siloed decisions get made without any transparency by a select few people with direct access to @defukt (CEO). - If you're not in the "in-crowd" it will seem like the most political company you've ever worked for. - Sometimes it feels like it is safer to do nothing than do something and have it ripped to shreds due to not meeting subjectively applied quality standards. - Impostor syndrome is an epidemic at GitHub... people are often paralyzed by fear resulting in slow shipping.

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