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- How is the work life balance in github? With the devops moving into github I want to know how the work environment is in github. How supportive are they of parents.
- How does RSU calculation work for GitHub/MSFT? For an offer of say 120k RSU per year, does that mean for each month, you are granted 10k in MSFT stock based on the valuation of stock that month? Or based on valuation of stock at time of hire? Also does GitHub offer refreshers after 4 years or at promotion? TC: 320k YOE: 12
- vote How much open source work do you contribute to on github outside of your day job? I just had an interview with a corporate recruiter who told me I don't have enough contributions on github to be considered for their company. Most of the companies I've worked for did not use github linked to my personal account. The one company I worked at that did seems to have deleted/moved th
- Should I apply to GitHub? I use github and I like it. They are remote-first which is a plus. The pay isn't bad according to levels fyi. So should I apply to github? How is the culture and wlb? How is the Community/Feed team? I'm L5 at Google and would be aiming for a Staff position at github. Blind tax: TC $380k (without
- How is Github India ? Wanted to know - how is culture, people and work quality in Github India ?. - Want to know about MSFT influence YOE: 7 Current TC: 46L Github Offered TC: 59L (Grade 9) Edit: Interview Process: - 3 Tech rounds ( DS Algo + System Design + Previous Projects ) - 1 Behavioural + Culture Fit round
- Working at Github India Hi, I have an upcoming interview with Github India. They seems to have opened the India office recently. But I am not sure about the work and ownership of work in India. Can someone tells me how is the work in GitHub India. Yoe - 6 TC - 70k USD.
- Github office in India Heard that github opened tech. office in Bangalore. How are the reviews for salary, work life balance etc?
- How is Github as an organization? Does anyone know how is Github in terms of work, culture and pay? Is it at par with Linkedin or Microsoft? How is culture? Is it as toxic as MSFT or LI? PS: Honest opinion required. TC or GTFO people please stay away. #github #tech #switch
- vote How many companies is TOO many to interview at the same time? Currently in the interview loop with: Apple LinkedIn Uber Github Brex Anduril Startup backed by GV It’s getting overwhelming on top of work but I want to see all the opportunities through. How many is too many at once? TC: 125k YOE: 1.5 Edit: Guess I will go through with all 7 companies lol #ub
- GitHub: culture and overall experience working? What's it like being in engineering at GitHub? How is the overall culture, work/life balance, and projects to work on? Exploring a potential Eng Manager role there
- link will software engineers lose their jobs to AI coding tools like GitHub co-pilot? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/microsoft-github-copilot-ai-offers-coding-suggestions.html "GitHub, GitHub’s parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work. The system can make recommendations in almost any pr
- Tech at Indeed I’m thinking of moving to Indeed but I wanted to check how good the tech is. How is dev happiness there? Do you use Git/GitHub and open source tooling? It bothers me how much of FB tooling barely works or plain doesn’t work… TC ~144k gbp
- Microsoft Move Between Companies if you work at Microsoft, how easy is it to move between other companies they own like github or linkedin and would you do it?
- vote How common is it for manager to monitor your Git profile? My current manager seems to track the work we are doing, by monitoring our open/draft pull requests and the statistics available on our GitHub profile. He seems to be using our activity on GitHub to track the amount of work we are doing and how we are progressing. Although, this is the first time th
- vote Github vs ServiceNow (TC updated) I got an offer from Github India and last round of interview @Service Now is done(I haven't got the result of it but I am confident that I did it pretty well). So, which is the best company to join? Work life balance? International relocation opportunities? R&D work? Work location is Hyderabad for
- Core crypto firms any good? How much $ do core crypto firms, say L1 like ETH, SOL, AVAX, pay? What about wlb and benefits? Wanted to get into crypto and am wondering if it’s better to try to get into those firms or just work on their open source github issues etc
- Best way to move into junior SWE from tech consulting? Hey guys. I'll keep it short. I have a BA in Economics, MS in Taxation. Working at B4 accounting firm doing tax technology... basically VBA, PowerQuery, Alteryx, and a little C#. Discovered I love programming but not sure how to switch. I know C, C#, older versions of HTML, CSS, Git/GitHub, some bas
- Github Final Round SWE I have a final round for github which seems to be all behavioral, HMs and director interviews. Does anyone know if I can ask about what is the current level I am being offered? As well as any tips? Is it really fully behavioral or will they slide in some technical questions? How is Github also? Fo
- Koreans, need your take My girlfriend graduated from an average-rank uni in Seoul as a Computer Science major, and says she was never taught how to code. She was taught theory behind coding languages (python, java, etc.) but never learned how to actually program anything. She doesnt have any projects, github, work sample
- Business team at Github Im talking to a recruiter about a senior eng position on the business team (role says “services engineer” which is a bit unclear). Wondering how working at github eng, and in particular business team is. Id be located in EMEA. Thanks!
- Best way for Java engineer to get systems programming offer? I’m currently a backend Java engineer. I would love to work in C/C++ as give systems programming a try, I’m just not sure how to get considered for those offers. I am pretty junior by have 0 experience with any low level programming in work. GitHub and a CS class is all I got. YOE: 1.5 TC: 103
- unethical to create anonymous github? i just want to contribute or create my own public repo so that i still do some interesting works. But seems bery risky to participate ir create own repo due to NDA. if im not revealing nor implementing our companys code, it would be fine to create anonymous github account to work on. how do you th
- Help with Stripe eng interview prep Hey Guys, I would like to interview with Stripe and I'm not sure how to prepare. Should I spend time focusing on Ruby in general? Should I be combing all Stripe repos on github? Code katas? What kinds of questions are asked? How is the experience? etc If you work there there or have interviewed
- GitHub or LinkedIn? I'm a software engineer. Thinking of applying to one or both companies. I figured I'd get Microsoft benefits while both have a good presence in the Bay Area. Any recommendations for one or the other? How do the work environment and TC compare? One reason I prefer GitHub is it would let me work
- How do you find the inspiration to do projects outside of work? I have a bad habit of getting really excited about a project, start it, then after a day or two just... let it sit in my Github repo (on Private of course). I don't really have much motivation to code outside of work, but feel like I should create something for more experience / make some side money
- Seattle - side projects / meet up and code? I work hard and have been reading books at my free time, but would like to grow a bit more (hands-on/discussion/networking) ouside of work and meet friends! how do you start your side projects? (randomly scan through Github and just start contributing?) is there any casual recommanded meet up and
- DEVOPS TC / guidance I’m teaching myself DEVOPS and want to get a job within the next 3 months I’ve already taught myself: Git Linux Docker Jenkins Tomkat Sonarqube Maven Github bit bucket Some shell scripting And am currently learning Kubernetes Maybe terraform By this, do you think I’m on the right path and w
- Googlers, how long does your PR for a mono-repo take to merge? Googlers, or any other company that uses a mono-repo, how long does your PR take to merge to prod? Does it take a long time to build and gather reviewers, etc? How many reviewers do you need per PR? Our org is working on a mono-repo and it takes an awfully long time to merge, plus we constantly
- GitHub remote work life and compensation YOE: 13 TC: 310k I'm a Toronto Dev working at Amazon as an SDE2 moving towards SDE3. My home life has changed somewhat and it's become difficult for me to leave home to go to the office. Amazon has never really successful figured out how to get WFH employees to contribute and not fade into the back
- Github Offer Evaluation Hello, wanted some opinions on this offer I got from Github for a Director Software Engineering in the Netherlands. Would appreciate any insight on the taxation of the RSUs as that's a big "sell" on their side but I have my doubts on how much of that I'll actually see if NL takes 50%+ of it on vesti
- vote Is this common? Get a new SWE job / new project. Project is in a gross state of disrepair. Unit test suite fails. No github hooks for PR builds. The deployment job hasn’t been run in months and no longer works as the rest of the infrastructure changed. Nobody really knows how it works. People refer me to other peop
- vote Companies for a great Product Career This is just my list based on my perception of companies for product management, Most Sought after (mix of work/pay/brand/WLB) - Google, Facebook, Stripe, LinkedIn, Uber Great place to be - Standard (At least one of work/pay/brand/WLB) Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Airbnb, Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce,
- How competent is the average CS grad? I'm a Junior majoring in Finance who is recruiting for a summer internship this semester. I've done over 300 LC problems and have a couple of personal projects on my Github and am wondering how strong my peers in CS are. I keep seeing posts on Reddit saying candidates can't solve Fizzbuzz yet I do
- Compartmentalizing your codebase for inviting freelancers Hi, Imagine the following scenario: You are working on your side project, and you'd like to start delegating tasks to other developers (e.g. from Fiverr, Upwork, etc). I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing my whole codebase with someone who will only be working on a small feature, for a couple of w
- Advice for going from Java Backend Engineer to Systems Engineer Hello all, I am very interested in doing systems programming. I was curious on how to get experience if there is little at work. I am trying drivers/games/emulators on my personal GitHub. (Almost all in C, some in Zig/Rust just for the lols) Also for interviews, what is looked for in a junior i
- What's it like a GH? Starting to have convos with a team over at GitHub and would love to learn more about the culture. This would be for a Solutions Engineering position and not a SWE position, but still curious to hear how sales and product interact with each other. I got mixed reviews from Glassdoor, so interested to
- WFH/Hybrid/Back to office companies Master thread Creating a master thread so can track which companies are WFH vs hybrid vs old school back to office. This is what I have so far. Update in comments about any company you know and I will update the list or correct this list if you work for any of these. Amazon is mostly appearing to be hybrid or
- Why do companies ask coding questions if the job description is not about solving coding questions For tech interviews, they usually ask coding questions after passing the resume and/or phone screen. If the actual day-to-day job, let’s say, is optimizing latency for api calls, why do companies ask coding questions? Why don’t they ask something more related? Anyone can write skills on resume. No
- DS to MLE: worth it & how? Been working in data science domain for years, currently with a heavy focus in ML and really enjoy it. Enjoy data etl and ml model deployment as well. Is MLE a more promising career track than DS? I'm interested in staying technical/IC forever. Very confident in math and programming (but beginner i
- GitHub culture, WLB for PM manager To Start: Nobody Needs PMs Yadda Yadda. With that Done... I’m Considering A Role At GitHub As A PM Manager. I Wanted To Know What The Culture Was Like And How WLB Is. Is There A Lot Of Support At The Company And Is The ROB well Managed Or Is It Constant Fire Drills And Unplanned Budget Meetings Li
- Should I include commit history on github projects for my resume? Had a question for those experienced in the field/recruiters. I'm a current college student close to graduating and am working on creating a github that I can put on my resume. Wanted to ask the following questions: 1.) Should I include the commit history on the projects that are going to be visibl
- GitHub WLB For some reason, GH info is scarce and basically all questions about it here go unanswered, but I figured I’d give it the old Irish try: Currently at FB and interviewing with Amazon and GitHub. I’m about 90% positive I’ll clear Amazon as I cleared it previously with ease and ultimately declined the
- Am I noob for using Github Desktop? Recent PhD graduate doing my first job outside academia. Quite good with ML modelling/research and implementing stuff. Put a few big things into production. When I started my job my engineering skills sucked hard, but now they are much better, and I could push things quickly, when there was a real n
- Need your inputs! Hi, i had started my career 3 years ago as a software engineer (MEAN stack developer). I have worked very hard and tried to learn the stack and with the stack i have also worked on asterisk framework, which I have integrated on video platform that I also lead (it's a different story that it won't go
- How to write lots of code Stupid question but here it goes: I’ve been coding for several years, had a couple of internships and been working full time for about 2 years. Most of the project I worked on are fairly small, ranging from 500-2000 lines of code max. I know LOC is not the best metric to measure an engineer’s produc
- vote ML engineer here, how's my pay? I wonder how my current pay is. Any feedback is appreciated! Currently ML engineer working on applied deep learning in a self-driving car team. I have a PhD in CS (focus on deep learning) from a mediocre school in US. Outside school I have 4 YoE total. I have about 15 publications (in mid-tier conf
- GitHub - how’s the day-to-day experience? I’m considering applying to GitHub to work remote, but I have tons of questions. How is the day-to-day experience as a remote engineer? Are are the pay and benefits competitive with the West Coast even if were to live elsewhere (e.g.: do they CoL adjust? If they do, is it generous?) Also, what’s t
- link [AMA] Google| FB | Snap | Airbnb | Lyft | Uber | Quora | 7+ Offers | [AMA] Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview
- FANG India. How realistic are these FANG and high TC offers for people from Tier 3 colleges in India? I've been going through posts on Blind for a while and have seen crazy good India specific TCs and offers out there for SWEs of all experiences. Are all of these for people from Tier 1 institutes like IIT/NIT/BITS ? What percentage of this lot are from Tier 3 institutes? Or does college really not m
- EE to SWE resume for FAANG/Unicorns A few questions since I'm wondering how you would get a call for an interview: What sort of things should I be doing and learning to get an interview with FAANG+ besides referrals? I understand Java experience is important to have. Is it better to try to get a job working with Java rather than Java