GitLab reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(740 total reviews)

Bill Staples

38% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

GitLab has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 740 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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740 reviews
3.0
Sep 8, 2022

Depends on the team you are joining

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Pros

Interesting product with many challenges. There is opportunity to initiate projects if time and workload allows it. Would advise joining the dev stages as they are more mature and roadmaps are better defined.

Cons

The way teams are organised creates silos, which affects the end product (it sometimes feels like separate pieces bundled together) and collaboration. If you are interested in making a change that affects other parts of the product it is a very slow process, as async communication can take long. Too many distractions that take your focus from your priorities and sometimes these are not beneficial to the product, waisting valuable time (many of the OKRs fall into this category in my opinion). Depending on the team and maturity of the product there are differences on how much processes and values are followed. The politics that are frustrating and some of the managers are incompetent, don't know the product or just have too many people to manage.

1.0
May 8, 2026

Talent is fading amid poor management and dysfunction

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Pros

There was a moment that GitLab was full of talent and potential. It is truly a shame that this is going away. Some talent is still there but obviously on the lookout

Cons

Lack of understanding how business outside of North America is conducted. Zero empathy, haphazard decisions that contradict each other twenty minutes after being implemented, too much superficiality and hypocrisy at high levels and a lot of incompetence in key roles, which unfortunately kills talent and, above all, the much-vaunted values ​​ij the handbook like transparency. To give you an idea of ​​how dysfunctional the company is, they share private information with other people in email threads. If Remote is what you are looking for, there are tons of Companies in a better shape.

2.0
Feb 24, 2026

Culture is gone after the new CEO started

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Pros

Overall I really enjoyed most of my time at GitLab, as I had worked there for 5 years before the leaving. It was only in the last few months the cracks started show. - Remote work - Unlimited PTO (this got a bit more strict as time went on) - Good pay for UK + RSUs - Good pension - Average UK parental leave - 16 weeks paid

Cons

- New CEO has taken GitLab from a fantastic unique company, to just another large American corporation without a soul - Basically all of previous C-suite is gone, and Bill has brought in his old friends

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