Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture | WIRED
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The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
Save this story Save this story It was the spring of 2016, and I was in the Oval Office, waiting to interview for a job. Only I wasn’t in Washington, DC. I was at the headquarters of GitHub, a code hosting platform, in San Francisco, sitting inside a perfect, full-size replica of the office of the president of the United States. A woman arrived to retrieve me. Shaking my hand, she explained that the Oval Office was being dismantled and replaced with a café for employees. We're trying to make things a little more practical, she said, with a shrug and a barely detectable roll of her eyes. “But b
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