GitLab reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(737 total reviews)

Bill Staples

39% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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
1.0
Feb 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Remote work - Smart and caring people to work with

Cons

- Newly hired CXO team do not even know about company values let alone following them. - CXO and VP just hire their friends from previous companies without checking basic things for company fit. - No clarity in the leadership team as to what is needed to succeed. Only thing they care about is creating a hustle culture to make everyone work extra hours. - No perks and benefits at all. No company offsites, not even basic company goodies to employees, no holiday budget, nothing. All this while CXO team and VP team frequently hold offsites and travel around the world. - No respect for async or remote culture which once defined this company and made everyone super productive. New leadership team does not like reading documentation which is a shame because this a company with heavy documentation (we have a huge public handbook which apparently CXO and VP team don't even bother reading) - They expect people to work like the big tech companies but the rewards are poor. Annual increments are very low around 3-5%.

3.0
Feb 4, 2026

Great product, great people, leadership still finding its footing.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

•Fully remote work with a high degree of flexibility. •The product itself is strong and receives good feedback from customers, which makes the internal challenges harder to watch. •The people you work with day-to-day are genuinely impressive, smart, thoughtful, and kind. There is a lot of real talent here.

Cons

•Leadership instability is a serious issue. There has been significant C-level turnover, making it hard to feel confident in long-term vision or execution. •It’s concerning when new executives are not deeply familiar with GitLab’s core values and internal frameworks. Seeing a new CTO unaware of foundational principles… even within their own engineering org. Cmon really? This signals misalignment and weak onboarding at the top. •Leadership hires increasingly feel disconnected from the company culture and how teams actually operate, raising questions about how executives are evaluated and integrated. •Management direction often feels inconsistent and reactive rather than intentional. •New leaders are not always set up for success, and that directly impacts teams and morale.

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