Good company questionable leadership - Anonymous employee GitLab Employee Review

2.0
20 Jul 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- very good peers - flexible time off - 1 Friday off per month - great documentation system -decent benefits

Cons

- upper leadership micromanagement - no responsibility on other teams to communicate - poor sales and sales dev training. They say it's good but it's not and for over a year nothing was done to fix it - leaders with 0 emotional intelligence to the point of it being shocking -below market pay for a all remote tech company -no consistency in hr . Some ppl are amazing others don't even know how they got the job - your hb is way too long and not as easy to navigate as the company claims - leaders will be gone without anybody explaining. Happened twice during my time there and it was odd and not at all in line with the supposed transparent culture.

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5.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Best company I've ever worked for. Strong culture, great leadership, competitive compensation, excellent work life balance, and a genuine focus on employee well being and career growth.

Cons

Fast paced environment and high expectations, but that's part of working at a successful, growing company.

2.0
16 May 2026
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Pros

OK pay or benefits in the market. Fully remote. Still is trying to frame itself as a big player.

Cons

Leadership went from being collaborative, communicative, and transparent, to being mercurial, secretive, and out of touch with the actual work. OBSESSSES over your AI usage metrics - even if AI doesn't help you and slows you down. The current layoff in progress was communicated poorly and not planned at all. And now they want us to adore the leaders and the company? Cultish vibes. We went from a company that plans ahead to a company that reacts.

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