Does GitHub pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, GitHub employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at GitHub. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at GitHub?

66% of GitHub employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated GitHub 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at GitHub?

Software Engineer (55) , Senior Software Engineer (32) , Sales (10) , Solutions Engineer (9) , Account Executive (8) , Director (7) , Program Manager (7) , Customer Reliability Engineer (6) , Enterprise Business Representative (6) , Marketing (6) , Senior Program Manager (6) , Software Engineer III (6) , Project Manager (5) , Software Engineer Intern (5) , Talent Partner (5)

What are the pros of working at GitHub according to real employee reviews?

"remote work is well supported and benefits are great" ((in 72 reviews)); "It is truly a great company and culture." ((in 61 reviews)); "The people here are great and very compassionate." ((in 58 reviews)); "Work life balance was great" ((in 29 reviews)); "great teams and interesting work" ((in 21 reviews))

What are the cons of working at GitHub according to real employee reviews?

"High turnover due to poor leadership" ((in 25 reviews)); "Poor management." ((in 21 reviews)); "higher potential for layoffs" ((in 12 reviews)); "Good managers are extremely hard to come by" ((in 10 reviews))

What are employees saying about GitHub layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about GitHub layoffs and their outlook for job security at GitHub in 2026.

What are the top reviewed GitHub locations?

San Francisco , Seattle , New York , Los Angeles , Chicago , Austin , Denver , Boston , Atlanta , Portland , Remote , Salt Lake City , Virginia Beach , Durham , Apex , Raleigh , Dallas , Houston , Minneapolis , Bellevue , Athens , Urbana , Norfolk , Fairfax , Albany , Wisconsin Dells , Phoenix , Juneau , Detroit , Whitefish

GitHub reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(463 total reviews)

Thomas Dohmke

50% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Culture & values

3.1

Career opportunities

2.7

Senior management

GitHub has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 463 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GitHub employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

463 reviews

5.0

Oct 4, 2017

Great place to work with lots of opportunity.

Sales

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment working with a cutting edge project and a fast developing industry. People are really engaged and supportive. Lots of lovely perks with lots of opportunity to move and grow in career.

Cons

They don't always get everything right but it is because its a company playing catch up as it moves from a start up mentality into a more mature approach. The back office is catching up slowly and this may be irritating for employees looking for everything to be de facto standard of a large office. It's not. You have to sometimes fend for yourself.

3.0

Nov 5, 2023

Amazing colleagues and immediate managers

Support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great immediate colleagues and managers, relaxed work environment, great benefits, compensation good* (see below in cons for an expansion on this).

Cons

Sexism. GitHub is very diverse and works hard on this but sexism is still rampant. I made €20k~ less than masculine presenting colleagues in the same role with the same experience and missed out on a promotion due to maternity leave, which masculine presenting colleagues got with less tenure. When raised the company investigated themselves (lol) and found they had done nothing wrong (lol) despite all evidence to the contrary. Another con would be lack of transparency around budget cuts and lay offs

4.0

Sep 23, 2023

Good but going downhill

Enterprise support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing colleagues. There's never any issues taking a day off if you need it. Fun company culture.

Cons

Travel budget completely slashed. I've met my team once in the last two years. No consideration from upper management at Microsoft about the impact this is having on teams and morale in a fully remote company. Our team cohesion has definitely taken a hit and it's evident everyone is fed up.

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