blog/drafts/0010_gh.md

pubdate: title: On Leaving GitHub slug: leaving-github summary: being reflections on my departure from GitHub

I worked for GitHub from 2018 until August 2023. It was my longest tenure at any company and, for a time, the most satisfying job I've ever had.

When I started at GitHub the idea of it being acquired was alien to me. I knew GitHub as a proudly independent company that made a lot of its own money by virtue of being useful. It put enterprise needs low on the priority list and focused on the day to day experience of people using GitHub for open source work. Internal chaos