GitHub reviews

GitHub is a great place to come and explore what it looks means to be apart of something special. There are a ton of great people here who are passionate about what they do. GitHub is more than generous with pay, benefits, flexibility, work/life balance, and they really do care about employee happiness and well being. They have a social impact team that is basically dedicated to saving the world -- which is amazing.

It's hard to tell what working at GitHub would be like from simply reviewing external sources. We don't have much of a presence outside of the walls we work in when it comes to Glassdoor, Linkedin and other sites that potential employees do the usual poking around in before they apply. I was cautious to throw my name into the hat for these very reasons. Each article I pulled up was outdated and a lot of the information I was able to obtain was from unreliable sources, or went against everything that I felt could be true after talking with the team and meeting them in person. Was GitHub just really good at making me think they were an awesome company, or were they really as awesome as they seemed to be, but never cared to tell people about it? After joining the team (one of the best decisions I have made in my career), I can now tell you with confidence that it is because word simply never got out about just how great being a GitHubber truly is. - Work with people who still have passion. With the flexible hours and unlimited vacation, I was finally able to join a team that not only worked hard, but had yet to be completely burned out. - Put your family first. GitHub gets it. We all have lived outside of work and they understand that these lives take precedent over something 9-5. They offer maternity and paternity leave, which I was thrilled to hear about. - Dogs at work. If you have a dog, this is heaven. If you don't, even better. You can play with someone else's and then say goodbye when you leave for home. - Flexibility with what you do and how you do it. Take on those additional projects and offer your extra time to different teams. They encourage cross team training and the company is small enough to make it a reality. - Remote but united. A lot of the company works remote, but with team summits and the companies annual summit, you get plenty of face time with the people you work with. - My rant could go on forever, but trust me, there are so many more pros to working here.