All interviews took about a month.

After I sent the application, I was contacted by the hiring manager to organize a Zoom call. This was the general screening call; after that, a technical interview followed.

Before the technical interview, I was sent a task, which was to review a merge request and provide comments on it. During the call, I had to explain my comments and then share my screen to fix the tests in order for the CI pipeline to pass.

After that, a behavioral interview with a team manager followed. After that, the final interview, more or less the same as before, was scheduled with a director of engineering.

Three days after the final interview, which I thought went fine, I received a more or less standard email that GitLab will not be proceeding with my application. The reason was quite vague; the engineering team simply did not want to proceed.

I understand that GitLab aims for the great fit and tech skills, and almost all of the applications are rejected, but I feel like I spent 5 hours doing the interviews and double that preparing for the interviews for no reason. I would have preferred to be rejected ASAP so it would save everyone's time.

The people I was interviewing were friendly, helpful, and transparent. It's just that the final decision was far from transparent, but that's life, I guess.

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