GitLab reviews

The worst management and executive management I have seen in my life. They make it very clear that "gitlab is not a democracy" and it is in fact fully reliant on how much your direct superiors like you. The sales organization is suffering the most of this. The handbook is useless. No one follows it, and those who do are blamed for doing so. There are no processes for hiring, firing, promoting or even set metrics. Direct managers have full control to do whatever they feel like doing with employees. Performance, quality, effort, and metrics are extremely ambiguous and untraceable, differs from person to person based on the whims of managers and no one can say you reached them aside from the manager's word of mouth. Criticism and objections are unofficially prohibited as long as they are coming from non-managerial employees. The culture is toxically positive. Passive aggression and favouritism is common place. No appreciation whatsoever for employees, and people just disappear daily with no previous notice. I would share more details, but the nda and contract threats and promises of legal retaliation prevents me from doing so.

All people in GitLab are equal, but some are more equal than others. The handbook is suggestions and subject to major changes overnight, with most of it is over inflated and ambiguous. This is my opinion as it's publicly available. Toxic positivity. Management are Gods that have amazing powers to shape reality as they please. Visit the"leadership" page at the time of writing to know more. NDAs and Contracts. They are differently something. I have never seen a senior lawyer so shocked by a few pieces of paper before. Discrimination, retaliation and favoritism basically doesn't exist. Because they said so. There's a public page in the handbook at the time of writing titled "Process for Tracking and Escalating Glassdoor Reviews" with a point of, and I quote "Negative reviews about GitLab or our culture in general, at the company level: A People Business Partner or member of the People Group (in rare cases, CPO)". I got prompted various times during my first month to leave a Glassdoor review and now I know why. Lastly, people are expendable. A large number of "employees" are legally just contractors, making them vulnerable and protect GitLab from reporting the real world actual turnover rate. I wouldn't recommend GitLab to my enemies. Worst mistake in my career.