J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab (Montréal, QC) en avr. 2023
Entretien
The process is pretty straight forward. A get-to-know-you call from the recruiter, then a technical round. For technical round, you could expect that you are reviewing a merge request and finding out what are the problems there and write descriptive comments as you will be actually working remotely and async.
I am honest to myself and I know I did a great job in that round and actually got my interviewers impressed a couple of times.
Maybe there were some stutters in finding the best approach and googling around (you are told you are allowed to) but I did find them and explained the why behind them.
If the expectations were for candidates to be super smooth and not even use backspace once, then their slogan of async working is just an irony as you will be having one or two interviewers watching you code over your shoulders!
At the end, I was sure that I will be moved to the next step as I resolved their challenge pretty good and had a positive colab with my interviewers, but instead, after a couple of days, I got one of those automated rejection emails with no additional reasonings. I was supposed to receive a feedback sharing forum, which I never did too.
I believe they were either in doubt if they want to really hire someone good for that position or it might have been a biased decision based on personal preferences.
I am experienced enough to distinguish a bad interview from a good one, and this definitely was a good one. That’s why I got disappointed in GitLab.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Find problems in a merge request code review, then fixing them on the fly. A feature design could be also expected.
The recruiter reached out, we had a great conversation, talked about compensation, then 10 days or so later I received an email stating they couldn't meet my request for compensation when they set the bar. Pretty disappointing as they didn't even give me a chance to show any skills.
Questions d'entretien [1]
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What were you past experiences with kubenetes, AI and other technologies. How I handled conflict.. some others.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab (San Francisco, CA) en mai 2024
Entretien
Applied directly to role after seeing it on LinkedIn, heard back within a week that they wanted to do an interview. The interview I had was with a recruiter.
The recruiter had a standard list of questions to ask each candidate, like a form letter. They seemed very uninterested/uninvested in our conversation and clearly didn't actually know anything about the role other than the questions they were told to ask, and just kept repeating that they "weren't technical" when I had a few questions of my own that any other technical recruiter could've answered easily.
They struck me as someone who was very much only there to collect a paycheck, and it left a pretty negative impression. I got a standard rejection a week later, which is probably for the better.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez GitLab en janv. 2024
Entretien
First was application and no feedback for about a month. After that, an too complicated interview process with too many steps was started. In total, it was about four steps until I received an offer. Comparable companies only have one step.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- Technical Questions
# HR-Quesitons (Name n weaknesses, ..)