GitLab

Senior Frontend Developer Interview Experience - United Kingdom

March 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Extremely long interview process. It was chaotic, and they didn't follow their 'transparent' handbook or process.

My process:

Hiring Manager
Take-home pull request, leaving feedback on a small Vue.js app
Technical Interview (Pair programming on simple Vue.js issues, easily resolved in 30 mins)
After a 2-week wait for feedback, a panel interview with behavioral and technical questions.

Found out at this point the team I was joining had already filled the position. Therefore:

Another hiring manager interview
Another behavioral interview with another team
Another technical interview with another team.

To find out they had also already filled this role.

No feedback was provided for the process other than "Not quite aligned."

Very disrespectful and frankly insulting process for the candidate.

Questions

Leave comments on PR, then provide reasons in IV. Then fix the code in the technical interview. Simple behavioral interviews.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the GitLab Senior Frontend Developer role in United Kingdom.

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Pass Rate

GitLab's interview process for their Senior Frontend Developer roles in the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for GitLab's Senior Frontend Developer interview process in United Kingdom.

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