A Company Unrecognizable in rapid decline - Anonymous employee GitLab Employee Review

I joined GitLab under the previous C-level leadership and stayed through good times and bad because I believed in what this company was building. That conviction is being tested harder than ever right now. In the last 18 months, the company has shed approximately 70% of its market value. That's not bad luck. Behind that figure is a cultural and strategic deterioration that those of us on the inside can see up close. The new management arrived and promptly filled key roles with former colleagues. What you end up with is a leadership layer full of yes-men. But it goes further than that: the micromanagement from the top is stifling. People who owned critical functions, sales, product, pricing, are no longer trusted. Their knowledge, their feedback, their warnings are ignored. Instead, top-down directives that seem disconnected from any ground-level reality are handed down and executed without question. Products are being pushed out the door before they're ready, customers are no longer buying. Feedback from employees and customers isn't heard or it goes nowhere. The GitLab values are still something the broader employee base believes in. That belief is what keeps a lot of people in the job. But values only mean something when leadership models them, and right now there is a visible disconnect between what is written on the HB and what is practiced. From where I sit, it looks like the company is being dismantled from within, through internal choices that consistently prioritize the wrong people and override the right ones. I genuinely don't know if this is recoverable. I hope it is.