I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GitHub in Feb 2022
Interview
+ takehome coding exercise
+ virtual onsite
All done very quickly. Recruiter was not very talkative but very efficient.
Took the opportunity to meet with hiring manager. Turned down the offer because it wasn't competitive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
+ take home exercise -- 5 hr time limit, provided with a github repo to clone, readme of instructions on how to run, test, requirements, needed to submit a PR to complete exercise, the exercise was about making requests to an API
+ virtual onsite: 2 behavioral interviews (really liked the interviewers, both were managers though not for the position), another coding exercise similar to takehome, and a pull request (PR) review to see how you deal with the ambiguity of walking into a new project and reviewing code you're not familiar with (hint: ask questions about why and what).
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.
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.