The interview process was weird—a technical interview followed by three behavioral interviews.

The technical interview is a joke, and you need to discuss a merge request which whoever with a bit of experience working with Rails could solve.

After that, I had several behavioral interviews with ridiculous questions like: "Tell me about the time you made someone feel welcome..." What does it even mean? It seems like having a professional relationship with your coworkers is not enough. They are looking for a fantastic/fake story about diversity and inclusion.

I waited more than two months to receive feedback (which was vague and prefabricated). My overall experience makes me feel like they were interviewing people in parallel and making the pool of candidates grow, which is entirely disrespectful to the other candidates. I asked the recruiter twice about my performance, and he told me that: "The feedback so far is very positive." They rejected me in the last step of the whole technical process.

I suggest taking a look at other big companies. Gitlab seems like a fake and unprofessional place. I will not apply again, and I recommend you avoid it as much as possible; they don't follow their own rules in their handbook.

Technical interview:

• Check a merge request and go through your solution.
• Design a system for a mailing service.

Behavioral:

• Tell me about a time that you made someone feel welcome.
• Tell me about a time that you worked in a team.
• Blahblahblah.