GitLab·Software Engineer

GitLab Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

CanadaPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first part of my process involved a document with development questions, then I was given code to review on my own and identify issues.

After that, I joined a video call to discuss my code review, and then I was assigned a design problem to solve. It felt like the process was trying to cover a wide range—reading code, reasoning about problems, and then stepping into bigger design thinking.

After the initial rounds, there were more interviews where the focus shifted to explaining my past experience and connecting it to how I would work in the role. Scheduling took a while, especially because they were spreading interviews across timezones and there was about a week between each step.

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