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?
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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.