Mine is the 9360 with the i7-8550U. In high performance mode, it's a hair drier. In balanced, the fan is a constant annoying whine if I have, for example, Webpack in watch mode, or am typing code quickly and keeping the IDE's language service active, or if any browser tab has any active JS at all. Basically if the CPU is at a reasonable speed and at 20% load, constant fan noise.

It's quiet if I have it in "silent" mode, but then I might as well be using a 350$ machine, as far as performance is concerned.

Maybe you have a slower CPU, or they fixed the thermals in your model?