First days but so far what an amazing onboarding - Backend Engineer GitLab Employee Review

5.0
7 Aug 2019
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Pros

The company and your colleagues take care of your soft landing into the company (and the remote work) with simple things like: * Calls with your manager and the onboarding buddy. * Breakout calls * A self-explained and step by step onboarding (using GitLab). * And everything is documented, so you can learn at your own pace.

Cons

Partially doing single sign on, which implies a lot of work to setup online accounts on your first days.

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