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      GitLab

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      GitLab reviews

      3.5

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (738 total reviews)

      Bill Staples

      39% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

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      GitLab has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 738 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GitLab employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      738 reviews
      5.0
      Mar 18, 2021

      Great company but needs to innovate internally

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      GitLab is an absolutely amazing company to work for! I love the flexibility the all-remote organization has. Everyone is super passionate about what they do. Leadership is very approachable and it's an exciting place to be. There are a lot of cool initiatives taking place to push the organization further. I'm so fortunate to work for a company like GitLab and the sky is the limit.

      Cons

      Only two cons that are top of mind since I've been here: 1. Tone it down on the wokeness a bit. I'm all for Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging but at times I feel like I can only go so far here since I'm a "white male." I've heard this term more at GitLab than any other job and it's exhausting. It makes me fearful for advancing because of my "identity" and not on "merit." 2. There needs to be some changing internally to how we operate. There's major communication overload and at times it feels to internally focused. What worked when the company was 500 people, doesn't work anymore now that we are 1300. I'd encourage leadership to be open to new ways of working and experiment more. There is a lot of fear of losing the all-remote culture, but GitLab can continue to be an innovator in this space if they try out new things.

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      4y
      Thank you for your review and advice. As we continue to grow, it will be a focus of the People team and the Executive team to ensure we are evolving our operating style as needed.
      5.0
      Mar 12, 2021

      Great culture, fast growing

      Analyst
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      Pros

      good values, especially transparency; fast growing; team members are very competent.

      Cons

      learning curve to get used to 100% remote. Once fully ramped, love it.

      3.0
      Feb 22, 2021

      Mixed, but good learning opportunity

      Support engineer
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      Pros

      - Lots of push to learn and grow your skills - Plenty of fun people to work with - Interesting challenges to solve, you're never bored - Good work life balance (on the support team at least) - The unlimited PTO is real, at least on the support team - Lots of people that you can lean on for help when you need it, I've never felt silly and was never talked down to for asking an honest question.

      Cons

      - Your experience working here is highly dependent on your individual manager and team - Upper management seems kind of out of touch with individual contributors - Pay is well below market, raises are meh, benefits are meh - Very little career growth potential - High turnover, hiring too slow to backfill so a lot of teams seem to have more work than available team members can handle - Diversity and Inclusion efforts need to improve at the upper management level

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