GitLab·Software Engineer

GitLab Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

PolandPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter reached out to me about a week before the interview to arrange an initial call, after I’d connected on LinkedIn.

At that point, I only had a very light picture of the role—an engineering position related to security/defense—and the rest was essentially unknown.

The call was on a quirky online platform, and it started about three minutes later than the scheduled time. When I finally got in, I had to adjust settings just to allow my mic and webcam, and that took about a minute. The first thing I heard was a comment that suggested the delay and setup had been frustrating for them, and that tone stayed with me.

We started with a question about my background and what I’d been working on, and I talked for a

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