Culture at GitHub?
Is GitHub a good place to work nowadays? How’s the culture there? #github #tech
Used to love the indian team’s culture. Until it didnt exist
Team or a culture?
The team, they laid off the whole indian engineering division.
GitHub India team got nuked earlier this year.
We don’t have a culture. We have lost so many long tenure folks and gained so many new folks we lost a lot of the magic
What is "the magic"? Everyone always talks about how awesome this culture used to be, but nobody can articulate what it was.
It varies from team to team. I’ve had a decent experience here. Is there something specific that you’re looking for? Also, how’s Spotify?
good! i left recently, but it was a chill job, and I had a lot of fun there. looking for a new place, so i'm looking around now. pretty curious about the team working on Actions - do you know much about it?
I work with them occasionally. The people I’ve worked with seem to be friendly and highly competent. The ones I’ve spoken to seem happy there. I may be mistaken, but I believe they were recently re-org’d. I’m not sure how that’s changed their day-to-day. Maybe someone from that team can comment.
The culture is non existent. If you don’t care about meeting coworkers or hear important company announcements this is the company for you.
ever since the layoffs the LT team has been failing to motivate and reinvigorate our culture
What should they do differently?
Depends on how you define good. If you fund a good team and have nice colleagues then the buck for the bang(if you will) is good. More tenure staff members might be the ones talking about glory and magic of the old days.
Better than Microsoft/Amazon
Not better than Microsoft at all. It's full of cringey people who want this to be an edgy and cool startup, instead of the enterprise developer tools company that it is. Lots of children here who need to grow up and look at where their paychecks come from.
Counterpoint: 98% of the people I work with are well adjusted adults. I will concede there is a proliferation of childish behavior on the internal blind. It hasn’t crept into my day-to-day work. Just the odd question or two in the AMA’s.