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Idk about transparent. They deliberately hid their "open compensation calculator."

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...

That's increasing opaqueness.

GitLab employee here. That was based on requirements outside of our control - and it is still available to employees and candidates. Everything is public by default, except for things that can't be - but we're public about what isn't public: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#not-public

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