Gitlab sold is soul - Anonymous employee GitLab Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice product and a few brilliant colleagues despite strong attrition in tenured employees.

Cons

- agressive lay off culture - strong unpaid overtime culture - volontary underestimated workload management - consistent lack of respect for employees - performance review with no smart objectives - corporate values are a marketing facade, decisions mostly driven by stock trend and investors direction. Don’t believe the hippie health and family first seduction speech. You will never have the time to take your extra PTOs - strongly suspect to spy activity on your laptop (suspicious management behavior) - below standard advantages - worst management I have seen in my career… which is a great performance

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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