GitHub Interview loop

BetterManager
dh278r

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Jan 7 22 Comments

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

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  • PayPal
    mRw08

    Go to company page PayPal

    mRw08
    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
    Jan 12 10
  • SIDEARM Sports / Eng
    yWPh57

    SIDEARM Sports Eng

    yWPh57
    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.
    Jan 8 4
    • CarMax
      modal

      Go to company page CarMax

      modal
      Any update? I'm scheduling my on-site right now.
      Jan 13
    • GitHub
      euni

      Go to company page GitHub

      euni
      I recommend you be really good at strictly typed languages if you choose them otherwise you will waste considerable time doing things that would be a breeze without writing much in higher-level languages.
      Jan 13
  • GitHub
    euni

    Go to company page GitHub

    euni
    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.
    Jan 12 1
    • SIDEARM Sports / Eng
      yWPh57

      SIDEARM Sports Eng

      yWPh57
      Can confirm. Don't know if I got it or not but definitely figured this out after the first interview.
      Jan 12
  • You might check the Leetcode forums
    Jan 7 1
    • BetterManager
      dh278r

      BetterManager

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      dh278r
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      I'm still trying to sift through. When searching "github" there are too many false positives, with people including github links in their posts.
      Jan 7
  • Is GitHub similar to LinkedIn since both are owned by Microsoft? I mean interview wise , not culture
    Jan 7 0