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      Software Engineer In Test Interview

      Dec 14, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GitLab in Oct 2021

      Interview

      1. Technical Assessment - Ruby questions with multiple choice answers and some writing questions about improving their codebase, as well as looking at issues and code reviews. You are given a week to submit it. 2. Technical Recruiter Screening - Call with the Tech Recruiter went well. I shared how impressed I am with the company and how I would love to work for GitLab. He did his tech screening which led to getting several interviews set up within only hours after the interview. He also let me know what the interview steps would be if a candidate is proceeded to the next stage. They scheduled several interviews ahead of time. However, at any point if they decide to not proceed with a candidate, those interviews will be cancelled. I think there might be an interview with the VP of QA too, but 'most of their process' is all outlined in their public handbook. Highly recommend reading them. 3. Interview with the Hiring Manager, 60 minutes - I was ready for this and was very much looking forward to it, but I withdrew. See the end of this review for my reasoning. 4. Interview with 10 members of their QA Team, 60 minutes - I withdrew. 5. Another Technical Assessment - this one was very well laid out. I was impressed to be honest and would still work on it in my free time. Without even meeting I can tell this Sr. SDET was very thorough and organized. It was definitely a large project filled with several tasks. Fork their repo and submit a MR for the given assessment. You have one week to do this. This is while you have two other interviews scheduled with them for 60 minutes each and if you are like me you probably have other interviews. 6. Technical Interview, 60 minutes - Technical portion of the interview (not sure what it all entails, but I would assume Technical Interview Questions) and Code review of the MR. This invite included 12 people in total! 7. Interview with the Director of QA When I saw this position with GitLab, I was super excited to work there. They are always Remote. Mostly because I like their Tech. Everything is public. There is so much you can learn. Very documentation heavy, which I found helpful if you don't go overboard. As much as it would be awesome to interview with them, I did not want the stress of their large number of people in interviews. Seriously, It is intimidating when it is 4/5 panel team, but knowing 12+ people have to give feedback on you is just unrealistic to me. They give you a salary calculator and it seems to be on the lesser side for NW. The range with some other companies were much higher. Also, if I got through to the final stage, the pay would have been less that what I was paid in my last position. Yet, I was still interested, because I thought it is 'GitLab', and one of my favorite products. IF I had made it to the final stage, the total of people who would have interviewed me would be about 24 people. That was too intimidating 'for me' and too stressful. I withdrew! Overall, they were prompt and well organized even though there were some miscommunications on scheduled interviews. Like another reviewer said, one thing to note, GitLab did not give ridiculous Algorithm/Data Structure LeetCode type Exercises (the current trend ). Instead, their Tech Assessments were fair and reasonable for this role/position. To conclude, having interviews scheduled with large number of people (for example, 10+ people) seems like it says they are not confident in their own skills to find the right fit, without needing the entire Engineering team. It is a poor management (time/cost) of Engineering resources.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Rate your Ruby Exp Some Ruby coding concepts Testing Techniques Troubleshooting Techniques using their merge requests/issues/codebase Tech task is to do one of the items in their issues in 'open' status
      Answer question
      4

      Other Software Engineer In Test Interview Reviews for GitLab

      Software Engineer In Test Interview

      May 6, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at GitLab in Jan 2021

      Interview

      Process was a 4 part interview: * Semi technical interview with a fellow engineer * Interview with team manager * Technical interview that required doing a technical task beforehand * Interview with head of Quality Interviews were organised very effectively and feedback on the process was almost instant. I was pleasantly surprised

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Different questions around general problems in automated software testing and behavioural questions. For example: What causes StaleElement exceptions and how to avoid it.
      Answer question
      1

      Software Engineer In Test Interview

      Jan 10, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at GitLab in Oct 2019

      Interview

      It was a very well structured and communicated recruiting process. I never felt lost in its different stages (I had about 4 interviews with 1-2 interviewers). The task was adequate, but enough challenge to understand the existing code base and make use of the endless valuable handbook. Very much encouraging others to apply!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      There is an initial technical assessment: "a short, multiple-choice and write in quiz to assess your understanding of general Ruby concepts and testing"
      Answer question

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