Name: GitHub
Rating: 4.6 (791 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on GitHub

Updated 5th July 2023

What is GitHub?

GitHub Enterprise is a DevOps platform to build, scale and deliver secure software that includes GitHub Issues and Projects for integrated project planning and management capabilities.

Overall experience with GitHub

ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEER

50M - 250M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Github Enables Structured Version Control and Enhances Collaborative Coding Environment”

5.0

Dec 18, 2025

My overall experience with GitHub has been very highly positive and impactful for team and individual collaboration. It provides a well structured platform for version control that makes tracking changes, maintaining codebases, repos and history. GitHub plays a huge role in contributing to various projects as a team, pull requests and code reviews are one of the greatest features in GitHub while contributing as a team encourages better code quality and collaboration. It also has built in tools like project boards and issues in repos to keep track of any issues or bugs. It also has integrations with CI/CD pipelines, cloud services and 3rd party services. Overall, it helps in testing, deployments and checks. There are also security features such as vulnerability alerts and branch protection which are significant when working on production repos.

IT Associate

<50M USD, Software

CRITICAL

“Access to Older Software Versions Available Through Reliable Storage Functionality”

3.0

Nov 19, 2025

The product allows for finding previous software versions in cases when it is not possible to use the latest.

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DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms)

About Company

Company Description

GitHub is a platform where developers, businesses, and organizations collaborate to create and innovate. Offering tools for version control, CI/CD, security, and code review, GitHub helps teams build software efficiently and securely. With GitHub Copilot, developers can leverage AI to receive real-time coding assistance, streamlining their workflows and enabling them to focus on solving complex challenges. The platform supports a wide range of projects, from open source to enterprise, while integrating seamlessly into development processes to foster collaboration and security. As part of Microsoft, GitHub is committed to empowering developers and organizations to bring their ideas to life, working toward the goal of supporting 1 billion developers worldwide.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2008

Head office location

San Francisco, United States

Number of employees

2500 - 4999

Annual Revenue

1B-3B USD

Website

https://github.com

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GitHub Likes & Dislikes

Version control - GitHub provides amazing change tracking and traceability through commits, history and branches, making it simple to review changes, revert back if needed and understand the development of the codebase. Pull requests - One of the excellent features in GitHub which makes collaboration easy and enables peer reviews with clear clarity in the changes made. GitHub Actions - It has built in CI/CD support in the form of actions, we use it to automate tests, linting and deployments like merging prod to pre-prod and validations, it reduces manual effort.

This is one of the best and most valuable storage facilities for software development business.

It handles the boring stuff. The autofill for PR descriptions is a massive time saver, and the way it suggests small fixes directly in the code review interface is really intuitive. Instead of me typing out a comment and waiting for a dev to fix a typo or syntax error, I can just accept the AI's suggestion and proceed. It really helps cut down on the trivial back and forth during code reviews.

Large repos - For very large mono repos, it's sometimes difficult to search for a file or a change made. Pull request - I feel like it's kind of buggy sometimes, when I select a file in the changes made it doesn't show it, when reviewing a large pull request. Learning curve - New users might feel overwhelmed or confused at the start when using GitHub as some concepts of git like conflicts, branching and rebasing can be challenging.

In some cases, the Product Search function does not work properly. For the correct finding, several continuous attempts are needed.

Mu biggest frustration is the occasional 'confidence' it has when it's objectively wrong. It sometimes suggests libraries we don't use or creates functions that don't exist, which can be a real time sink if you aren't paying close attention. I also find that it struggles with our internal coding standards in that it tends to default to more generic patterns that don't always align with how we structure our projects. This results in me rejecting or editing suggestions more often than I'd like.

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What Your Peers Are Saying About GitHub

VP of Product Management

Based on many peer discussions, seemed like GitHub Co-pilot was really the only true AI product teams were using internally. Any other tools people are finding value with on internal side?

Senior Vice President, Engineering

Other than GitHub Copilot, we have seen developers using Tabnine and Codeium very often with a lot of success. If you are an IntelliJ fan, do check out their custom AI available in their tools like Rover and Fleet. ChatGPT has been a revolution and probably is as good as any other option available today. Feel free to checkout these tools though.

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16 Nov 20234.4k Views8 Comments

IT Manager

Has anyone had any success with evaluating the impact of using Generative AI tools such as GitHub's Copilot on the productivity or performance impact on developers? I see a lot of qualitative discussions about how developers say they are more productive, but how are you measuring that impact?

Group Chief AI Officer & Partner

Here is a link to a study where they recruited 95 professional developers, split them randomly into two groups, and timed how long it took them to write an HTTP server in JavaScript. Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness - The GitHub Blog Result: The group that used GitHub Copilot had a higher rate of completing the task (78%, compared to 70% in the group without Copilot). The striking difference was that developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster–55% faster than the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot. Specifically, the developers using GitHub Copilot took on average 1 hour and 11 minutes to complete the task, while the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot took on average 2 hours and 41 minutes. These results are statistically significant (P=.0017) and the 95% confidence interval for the percentage speed gain is [21%, 89%].

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GitHub Reviews and Ratings

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50M-1B USD

IT Services

Review Source

Github Enables Structured Version Control and Enhances Collaborative Coding Environment

Director Of Engineering

Media

AI Integration Eases Routine Tasks But Occasionally Misaligns With Coding Standards

4.0

Jan 12, 2026

Github has been our standard for hosting code, but adding Copilot to our review workflow has been a notable shift. It's great for catching the 'low-hanging fruit' like syntax slips and generating quick summaries for long pull requests, which saves me a lot of mental energy. While I appreciate the one-click fixes and the autofill features for PR descriptions, I still have to keep a close eye on it because it occasionally suggests code that doesn't align with our specific project style. It's a solid 4 star tool that has definitely sped up our development cycle.

Drilling Solutions Engineer

Energy and Utilities

Access to Specialized Industry Projects and Community Collaboration on GitHub Platform

Apr 7, 2026

I started using the GitHub platform when I was enrolled in a Data Analytics course, as a way to build, share and read code snippets or larger codes with the developers. Having already been involved with this platform, it helped me to use this knowledge while working in the Oil and Gas industry as a performance and optimization engineer. There is an open source platform where other drilling communities can share their specific programs for our industry. It is a great tool to use, where you can learn and access different projects that can help you in your job.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Banking

Streamlining Data Engineering Projects Through Github Integrations and Workflow Automation

Dec 9, 2025

I appreciate Github's integration with tools like terraform and docker which makes managing complex data engineering projects far more organized. The UI is clean, search works well and the platform handles everything from development management to deployment with minimal friction. Overall, Github is a robust, dependable ecosystem that supports both individual productivity and team collaboration.

IT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

The Gold Standard for IaC, Version Control Excellence, CI/CD integration and Bulletproof Fallback

Dec 15, 2025

We love using Github within our company as we use this to store our terraform code that is used for deploying our infrastructure (IAC)