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Senior Frontend Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at GitLab for 1 year
May 23, 2019
San Francisco, California
5.0
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Pros

If you have a passion for DevOps, this is the place to be. GitLab offers the opportunity to contribute to every aspect of the DevOps loop and uses its own software to improve the performance and productivity of its own developers and developers everywhere.

Are you a skilled developer who prefers using and contributing to open-source solutions? Do you value transparency, rapid iteration, and your own autonomy? If so, then you would fit right in at GitLab.

Cons

As part of a rapidly growing organization with remote employees working together from all around the world, you will need to be naturally self-driven in order to succeed.

GitLabbers are wonderful and talented people, and the onboarding process is long and well-conceived.

But, as a manager-of-one, you will need to embrace disciplined personal organization and balance work and personal life appropriately to ensure your own health and happiness.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing, and GitLab will change the world.

GitLab offers a fantastic compensation package with numerous innovative perks and incentivized rewards, but consider providing even better benefits in terms of annual compensation increases, 401k matching limits, and 401k vesting schedules.

Consider improving the onboarding process to better account for role-specific priorities, hardware supply-chain issues, and categorization of software vendors to enable incoming employees to progress more predictably.

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