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An incredible place to work, fully remote, growing, and an exciting product to work on!

Frontend Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at GitLab for 1 year
August 14, 2019
5.0
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Pros
  • Fully remote (the obvious first pro)
  • The company supports you working in the way you do best.
  • Your performance is measured in results, not hours at your computer.
  • Nearly everything about the company is open source, or written and documented, or recorded and on YouTube, or broadcasted on a live stream. It is truly an open company.
  • Your colleagues are people, not resources, and the handbook emphasizes that.
  • Speaking of the handbook, it is great and publicly available online.
  • The first week of onboarding tasks are really well thought out and help new employees acclimate to the GitLab ways of working.
  • I've personally noticed very little to no interruptions during the day, and every day has felt very balanced with productivity, company calls, and coffee chats/social calls.
Cons

You might opt in to join a company call outside of your typical domain and be exposed to terminology/acronyms you're unfamiliar with. It's not much of a con as it is a learning opportunity!

But it might be difficult at first to understand what is going on if you don't ask what something means or do a bit of research.

Advice to Management

This is the best management I've ever experienced, and I honestly don't have much advice to give.

Something my manager did during my first week was introduce me to a few people at the company that have interests which align with mine. If other managers are not doing that, I would highly recommend it!

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