GitLab·Software Engineer

GitLab Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

AustraliaPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and didn’t make it past the first stage.

The process started with a form-letter rejection, which honestly didn’t surprise me, but it also made it feel like my time hadn’t really been valued.

That first stage asked for one CV, one cover letter, and three questions—one was simple and two were complicated. The complicated ones were the kind of technical prompts that, at other companies, usually take a full 45–90 minute in-person interview to do justice. I spent the better part of an afternoon writing long technical answers, and the whole experience felt like a merged CV screen plus a technical interview, meaning a lot of applicants

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