GitLab·Backend Engineer

GitLab Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

PanamáPosted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a role with a very tricky, uncooperative style technical exercise that made it hard to know what success looked like.

Company introduction — The first interview felt like a pitch rather than a two-way evaluation.
Technical interview: uncooperative client + merge request — I was put into an exercise where the interviewer played an uncooperative client, with little explanation of the dynamics.
GitLab merge request task — I had to work with a merge request on GitLab, review code, and propose fixes, but without clear instructions about expected changes. Outcome: I didn’t move forward; the takeaway was that when the exercise lacks clarity and guidance, it becomes an exercise in guessing

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