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
2.0
Jul 20, 2022

Good company questionable leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- very good peers - flexible time off - 1 Friday off per month - great documentation system -decent benefits

Cons

- upper leadership micromanagement - no responsibility on other teams to communicate - poor sales and sales dev training. They say it's good but it's not and for over a year nothing was done to fix it - leaders with 0 emotional intelligence to the point of it being shocking -below market pay for a all remote tech company -no consistency in hr . Some ppl are amazing others don't even know how they got the job - your hb is way too long and not as easy to navigate as the company claims - leaders will be gone without anybody explaining. Happened twice during my time there and it was odd and not at all in line with the supposed transparent culture.

2.0
Oct 20, 2022
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Pros

I took a 50,000 dollar pay cut in my salary/OTE to work at GitLab because I heard so many great things. Easy career growth, a team that wants you to succeed, flexible working hours, etc. Do NOT be fooled. Remote Work is a plus, and for the most part all of my co-workers were pretty awesome. GitLab itself tries really hard to make the company have a great and inclusive culture, and I think it exceeds in that EXCEPT for in their Sales org. Oh, also the benefits are pretty excellent, great health insurance.

Cons

Difficult monthly quota to hit without the ability to prospect and get your own leads. This leads to some months being lather lackluster The pay for this sort of position is pretty low. You set up a deal for 500k+ and get 30-40 bucks for it. Although they offer unlimited PTO, good luck hitting your quota if you ever take time off. Like I said, this is an inbound gig. To hit your quota, you essentially have to book a meeting and have a qualified meeting EVERY SINGLE DAY. If you take time off, that rhythm is disrupted and you also lose out on all of the leads that should have been routed to you. Although GitLab prides itself in its transparency, there is NO decorum in the slightest when it comes to its sales processes. You hear something different every day depending on who you talk to about what you should and shouldn't be doing. On top of that, you have teammates constantly stealing YOUR leads and capitalizing off of the work you've done prior. For example, you work a lead, they say they'll talk to you in two months. They reach back out and someone on your team will swoop in on that within seconds, delete your salesforce comments and work it themselves. Having to constantly go to managers to audit this and get credit on things stolen from you when you're stressed about hitting quota is extremely toxic.

2.0
Mar 14, 2024
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Pros

GitLab is a good DevOps tool, and if you have the initiative, you can learn a lot from your customers and colleagues. You get to know great people who love technology and want to improve the developer experience.

Cons

A lack of diversity within the Customer Success management group is leading to employee dissatisfaction, particularly among Black and Brown team members. This has negatively impact team morale and performance. A lack of transparency and open communication hinders collaboration within this team. Managers operate in an exclusive circle, favoring their own ideas and discouraging constructive criticism from team members.

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