GitLab Senior Engineer reviews

- 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%.

1. Unfair pay practices outside US. They have a concept of location factor which is not revised for years irrespective of how the market or economy of a particular country is performing. Yearly compensation appraisals are based on US standards which are extremely low for many other countries. 2. Some technology teams have too much pressure to deliver from product managers who are just running behind deadlines. 3. Bad expense policies for a remote company. They have cut a lot of corners here although they save a lot by being remote.