GitHub companies and the cost of engineering depth

The situation

GitHub companies skew engineering depth, for a reason specific to them. Start from this: GitHub companies expose their engineering in public, which is rare enough to be a qualifier on its own, and engineering depth follows. Worth knowing about GitHub companies, since engineering depth inherits it: an empty organization proves nothing, because plenty of serious teams publish nothing at all. We keep 2 preconfigured tasks for engineering depth on GitHub companies, across 1 tool.

Why anyone bothers

There is a real difference between GitHub companies that buy all their technology and GitHub companies that employ engineers who ship.

Doing it end to end

1. Start with one of GitHub companies you already know, so a wrong engineering depth answer is obvious rather than plausible.
2. Run GitHub Organization Signal Scanner across your list of GitHub companies, which carries 2 ready made setups for engineering depth.
3. Read ten rows of engineering depth on GitHub companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

Traditional Search Tools

• GitHub itself, for GitHub companies. Free, complete, and the search is better than any wrapper around it.
• Their job board. Open engineering roles are the strongest available proxy and the listings are public. It tells you they are hiring engineers, not what those engineers do.
• BuiltWith or Wappalyzer. Shows what the website runs on, which is adjacent and not the same. A custom stack hints at engineering, and plenty of engineering teams ship on off the shelf tooling.
• Look for the public code. Search the company name on GitHub, check for a developer subdomain, read the engineering blog. Three minutes and the answer is usually obvious.

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• GitHub Organization Signal Scanner2 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.