Slowly becoming Microsoft - Director GitHub Employee Review

4.0
6 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive pay and benefits, remote-first work culture, huge community and brand loyalty to leverage, still retains an openness to try new things, truly a standard-bearer technology in software development.

Cons

Slowly becoming Microsoft in its increasing bureaucracy and fading autonomy, which can make it hard to navigate and find stability.

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4.0
2 June 2026
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Pros

Remote work with some really great team mates

Cons

Currently GitHub seems to be all over the place and with some key Leadership moving on, the replacements seem to be mainly coming from MSFT.

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