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.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at GitHub (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2016
Interview
Process took 3 months overall. First was screener questions from HR. Second was hangouts interview with 2 team leads, one of whom was to be my manager. Third round was a coding test where you were given access to a private repo that described a problem and had sample code to get you started. You developed a solution in your own time and sent a PR to signify your completion. Fourth round was a code review comprised of members from the team applying for. Fifth round was somewhere between a half to full day of google hangout interviews with employees from various departments.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is one feature on github that you would change or add.
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
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.