Not the usual company - Senior Backend Engineer GitLab Employee Review

5.0
Oct 3, 2019
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Pros

* Technical interview: you get a dummy project to work on. As a backend engineer, this is critical. * 100% Remote work * Benefits * Super helpful team members * Everything is written down. You have traceability and version history of everything. Check the GitLab handbook. * Dogfooding. GitLab uses GitLab for its day to day activities. * Cross team collaboration

Cons

* Onboarding can be intimidating. * It takes time to get around how things work and are organised but this is mitigated by the handbook.

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5.0
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Pros

Best company I've ever worked for. Strong culture, great leadership, competitive compensation, excellent work life balance, and a genuine focus on employee well being and career growth.

Cons

Fast paced environment and high expectations, but that's part of working at a successful, growing company.

2.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

OK pay or benefits in the market. Fully remote. Still is trying to frame itself as a big player.

Cons

Leadership went from being collaborative, communicative, and transparent, to being mercurial, secretive, and out of touch with the actual work. OBSESSSES over your AI usage metrics - even if AI doesn't help you and slows you down. The current layoff in progress was communicated poorly and not planned at all. And now they want us to adore the leaders and the company? Cultish vibes. We went from a company that plans ahead to a company that reacts.

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