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      Software Engineer Interview

      24 Mar 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at GitHub in Mar 2022

      Interview

      1. Recruiter screen 2. Take-home assessment through a GitHub private repo + PR submission. 3. Onsite rounds: one pair-programming session, one code review session + some system design questions around the code under review, two separate behavioral interviews with EMs. Leveling is reached along the process. Overall, the process itself seems good. I was really excited with that. The take-home assessment seemed really practical and was fun to do (even though it can easily take more than the suggested 2 hours). I also liked the structure of mixing take-home test, with a pair-programming session, and a code review one. The behaviorals with the EMs are pretty standard. The real problems were the following: 1. The live pair-programming session was really badly set up on their side. The recruiter gave wrong instructions on how to set up the enviroment. The interviewer told me they had dropped Docker and are running differently now. So, guess what, I spend most of the interview time just setting up the environment and trying out different things with the interviewer on the call until the "plan B" was finally ready. I was already distracted by all that and didn't perform well. Actually, the plan B environment didn't allow me to properly test my code (since it was relying on a public and unstable endpoint). 2. The code review session was in Ruby/Rails even though I answered their question multiple times on my language preferences. The PR under review didn't have any context at all, so basically I had only 10 minutes to read through the PR code in Ruby on Rails, guess all the context, and make code review comments, all on top of a language and opinionated framework I never programmed with (and no, the position was not a specific a Ruby position). So, obviously I did not perform well. 3. And finally, the recruiter sends me this "Thank you for speaking with *INTERVIEWER NAME(S)* about GitHub’s..." All in all, very unprofessional and sloppy process from GitHub.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions around API endpoints, JSON objects manipulation, caching.
      Answer question
      10

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      Software Engineer Interview

      21 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at GitHub

      Interview

      There were a total of four interview rounds: a recruiter screening, a hiring manager interview, and a loop consisting of system design and coding rounds. The interviews went very well, and after each round, the interviewers seemed highly impressed and mentioned that I would hear back from the recruiter soon. However, I was ultimately rejected because the decision came down to a very close comparison between me and another candidate. Additionally, the recruiter was not very helpful throughout the process, which made the experience more frustrating.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Behavioral questions and previous work experience
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      Software Engineer Interview

      5 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at GitHub (New York, NY)

      Interview

      Gave OA after passing the interview screening. Recruiter will reach out it was only 1 problem in the OA on hackerrank to solve and recruiter will reach out immediately after that’s been solved

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      One leetcode recursive problem for Oa
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      23 Mar 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at GitHub in Feb 2025

      Interview

      Interviewed for SWII. Was straightforward. Had a talk with a recruiter and asked basic behavior questions then told me on the call that I am being pushed to interview day. I was given what the questions might be, Interview day was 2 technical interviews and one cultural. Technical questions was to build a game of battlefield and the other was the set up some HTTP calls.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A game of battlefield. Set up HTTP calls
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