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      GitLab

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      GitLab reviews

      3.5

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (737 total reviews)

      Bill Staples

      39% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      GitLab has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 737 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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      737 reviews
      2.0
      Jan 14, 2020

      Great Company, Long Hours

      Manager
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Amazing technology and principles * Great people * Growth is through the roof * Company will be a success (at any cost)

      Cons

      I agree with the positive reviews here, but there are one or two toxic teams. I enjoyed working here, but ultimately burned out (70-80 hour/wk + weekends, not time off). PTO is strongly discouraged and management is often "do as I say, not as I do"

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      GitLab Response
      6y
      Thank you for your feedback and for sharing your concerns about team member burnout. This is a tremendously important topic to everyone at GitLab, including our executive leadership group. We recently added a new page in the handbook dedicated to helping team members recognize burnout, isolation, and other experiences that can impact mental health in a remote setting. Read more here: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/mental-health Our “no ask” policy for paid time off applies to all team members across the company, regardless of their role — even our CEO, Sid, talks about and models this behavior regularly. If any team members are not experiencing this the way it’s outlined in the handbook (linked below), we urge them to bring these concerns up with their manager, or contact their People Business Partner for support. As GitLab continues to grow and scale, we all play an important role in holding each other accountable for fostering a healthy environment and upholding our company values. These pages in our Company Handbook may be helpful: - Our unlimited “no ask” time off policy: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/ - Our values: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/ - Building and sustaining our remote culture: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/building-culture/
      5.0
      Feb 21, 2018

      Enterprise Sales Development Representative

      Enterprise sales development representative
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      Pros

      - Servant leadership from management is unparalleled at GitLab. Most high growth startups put product/solution first and the people get left behind - not here! They understand the importance of building the community as well as the product. -GitLab embraces a fully transparent "open source" culture and the values represent this - just check out the handbook online. - Visionary solution that is changing the DevOps market and how companies develop their software. - Remote company provides a great work/life balance!

      Cons

      - High growth start up - comes with natural growing pains/multiple hats

      5.0
      Nov 20, 2017

      Well run, high growth start up

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      GitLab understands the importance of building a healthy company as well as an incredible product and community. One of the challenges with some of the best products out there is they are so focused on the product they are building that they neglect the culture and health of the company. Not so with GitLab. It is balanced, transparent, healthy, and free from office politics. It is run by a CEO who wants to be a CEO, and who puts his energy into continually improving his ability to be an effective CEO. Other pros: - Talented software developers, ux designers, product managers, marketers, people ops, finance, accounting, solutions architects (SEs), customer support, account managers, and sales professionals. No weak links at the company. - The company and product are improved by open source contributors. - Frugal, practical, and operationally mature. Run like an adult company. - People like working with one another, and are genuinely thrilled to see one another during the company summit held once every 9 months. - Flexible remote-only work culture. Everything important has a url, decisions get written down, and everyone works well asynchronously. - GitLab listens to its customers, and ships new features for them on the 22nd of every month. - The product was the highest rated leader in Forrester's CI Wave. - Listens to and values feedback from developers, IT ops practitioners, and IT leaders.

      Cons

      - There is always a lot of work to do given the company's rapid growth, so life-work balance can be challenging. - Typical startup challenges: lots of competing priorities and everyone needs to wear a lot of hats.

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      GitLab Response
      8y
      Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing your experience with GitLab! It is so important to us to preserve our unique culture as we grow, and we know that hiring and keeping the best people is our best bet at doing so.
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