GitLab·Software Engineer

GitLab Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

What threw me off started after I’d already done multiple technical steps.

Early on, I went through interviews and a coding challenge, and then they assigned me two tickets to complete over two weekends. It felt weird and, once I actually looked at the tickets, it felt like I was being asked to do work that looked very much like real GitLab tasks.

I talked to the internal recruiter who had initially reached out to me, and it took a while to get a conversation. When I finally did, I explained I wouldn’t be completing the tickets since I’d already completed two technical interviews and a coding challenge. I told them I’d be willing to do another technical interview,

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