I will interview for a SWE position with GitHub soon, and for all sorts of reasons, personal and professional, GitHub is absolutely the ideal company for me at this time in my life -- even if that changes later. 7 YoE TC ~150K I currently have 1 offer from a well-known and interesting public company, but due to their lower equity grant, Blind would probably call it a Tier III company. Plus, it's only a marginal base salary bump for me. I've had onsites with several other top companies: FB, Uber, Dropbox, PIP, Square, Stripe, and a handful of startups. No offers from any of those, but after each one, I came away from it feeling much better about my performance than I did the last. So, at least I'll be interviewing with my ideal company GitHub with the most preparation under my belt... But given my track record I don't have the greatest confidence, and I feel like this will be my "last" chance in the near term, otherwise I'll have too long of a cool down period with every other company worth applying to. So, I'd have to take the 1 other offer (not a terrible result, but not exactly desirable either) and try again next year. (Cool-downs have all been one year when I ask.) If anyone from GitHub (or anyone at all) has any useful tidbits about the most recent SWE interview structure, it could be enormously helpful. Do they have a system design interview in the style you'd expect at Microsoft or FAANG, etc? If not, can you describe the architectural/technical styles? Are they done through something like CoderPad or a collaborative whiteboard, or am I most likely sharing my own screen while walking through a more customized problem? Should I expect algorithms & data structures? Or, something like building/interacting with an API, etc? How heavily weighted are their behavioral interviews? In the past, I saw they had an "extra" diversity & inclusion themed interview that seemed to surprise people after they thought the interview loop was over. Is that accurate / still a part of it? #engineering #software #swe #github #interview
Is GitHub similar to LinkedIn since both are owned by Microsoft? I mean interview wise , not culture
Have my final with this week for Senior SWE, haven't ran into any leetcode or anything too crazy that has caught me off guard. So I would say its not too bad. I'll let you know if I land it. Also there is a github interview process guide online that has pretty much the exact interview process.
Awesome, good luck! I think I’ve found the guide you’re referring to, thanks. What’s your language of choice for the screen/interviews?
I opted for c# since that's what I've worked in my entire career
Keep it simple. Don’t complicate. Don’t think too much. The interviewer is looking for specific things. If you can pick up the clues and answer what they want to hear, then you will do well.
Can confirm. Don't know if I got it or not but definitely figured this out after the first interview.
Just got confirmation of an offer the other day from them. Waiting to hear the numbers. Seems like recruiting is difficult for the org right now
What's the indication that recruiting is difficult for them? Maybe if they didn't take like 3 weeks to schedule my onsite then recruiting would be easier 😤
Read some posts here that the org is seeing a lot of staff left and there is a push to hire 500 people for the year. So that and backfill
How did it go? Can I dm you?
Did u get the offer ?
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You might check the Leetcode forums
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