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My favorite part of their story is how they changed the interview process to not be terrible and built a dashboard to quantify it: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/19/the-trouble-with-te...

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I've interviewed with them twice (2016 & 2022), didn't receive any feed back other than a generic decline e-mail. And this was despite promises to the contrary from recruiters, I was ghosted when I asked for it too. I even recall teaching the interviewer some javascript quirk during a coding challenge the first time and solved whatever silly brain teaser question that was asked, with test cases too! Yet zero feedback as to why I was not going to move past that first technical challenge. Disappointing really.

EDIT: More on topic, I did really enjoy the MR based technical interview way more than the common coding challenge.

So your personal experience with the processes of $BIG_CORP don't live up to the fairy tails $BIG_CORP spins in their blogs, talks and other public relations material? I am shocked, shocked!

They try to paint this feedback as a big difference about themselves is the only reason I brought it up.

Interviewed with them once, it was a while back, more than 2 year, but it was the worst interview I can remember.

They asked me to clone a rather large repo as part of the interview, I cloned it but it was slow, the dude just blamed it all on my internet and my geographic location. Like kept going on about it through the awkward slow clone. I think I wrapped it up early.

I ws cloning other repos of similar size and much faster speeds that day.

Unfortunately the dashboard seems to be very broken now :(

GitLab team member here. Thanks for flagging. I contacted the owner of the dashboard and asked if they can get it working. Will report back if/when it is repaired.

Nine days later. Still down?

Some but not all parts of the dashboard are working.

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