J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab en févr. 2020
Entretien
It was quite a fast and smooth process. Got contacted by a recruiter from GitLab and started the process by filling an application form and doing a HackerRank Back-end Developer test.
My panel interview was scheduled after this that lasted 45 mins. It consisted of three parts: behavioral and situational questions, technical questions and questions that I had for the interviewers concerning GitLab and the internship.
The panel was genuinely interested in getting to know more about my background and seeing if I could fit into an all-remote position. The atmosphere during the interview was friendly and relaxed, and the interviewers were open in their responses.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. Why do you want to join GitLab?
2. Areas of interest that I would want to work in at GitLab
3. Have I had experience with working remotely before?
The process started fine but after making the homework they've told me that the position was moved to another country, After the position apeared agian in my area I've recent my CV wanting to finish the process but they've never got back to me.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab
Entretien
Pretty straight forward interview which is on their handbook.
Initial screening then reviewing a merge request.
Technical was with hiring manager which is a mic of technical and behavioural.
Practise more STAR format questions for this stage
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab en nov. 2025
Entretien
The frontend and backend interviews were great. The interviewers were calm and level-headed and allowed me to showcase my technical strengths. The hiring manager interviews were not as great. Different hiring managers have different ways of interviewing and you're guessing what it is they want to hear. I think GitLab needs to work on standardizing this process and training interviewers how to interview. In the first interview, the example story I gave was clearly not a fit for the interviewing. Perhaps they could have mentioned that and pivoted, or initially mentioned what they were looking for. In the second interview, I was given feedback for not mentioning things that the interviewer did not even ask. You can't have a candidate who was given incredible feedback on the technical stages (as mentioned by the recruiters and the hiring managers) and barely passing HM rounds. There's a clear mismatch here. Interviewing is a hard thing in general in the software engineering field, and it's something every IC & EM need to work on.