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      4.0

      100% would recommend to a friend

      (9 total reviews)

      Bill Staples

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      4% positive business outlook

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      9 reviews
      5.0
      Aug 14, 2019

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

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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's great and publicly available online. - The first week of on-boarding tasks are really well thought out and helps 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.

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      GitLab Response
      6y
      Thanks for taking the time to leave such a thorough review! You bring up great points about our culture and how we get things done as a remote team. Check out this page for more about all-remote work at GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
      5.0
      May 24, 2019

      Off to a great start

      Senior frontend engineer
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      Pros

      The people are amazingly friendly and helpful. Gitlab's processes and documentation are the best I've ever seen.

      Cons

      It can be a bit overwhelming. I am a huge fan of remote work, but this level of communication and documentation may not be for everyone. (and that's ok!)

      5.0
      May 23, 2019

      Radically open, joyfully honest, and leading the way in remote work.

      Senior frontend engineer
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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.

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      GitLab Response
      7y
      Thanks so much for leaving such a thorough review! It's important to consider all the pros and cons of fully remote work, so it's great that you brought that up. We've submitted a merge request to add one of the cons you mentioned to the "all-remote" page on the GitLab site: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/23664
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