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      Software Developer Interview

      25 May 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at GitLab in May 2024

      Interview

      The whole process took me roughly 2,5 months, so beware that it might take way longer than usual to get through every interview stage at this company. Even though for one role there are only 3 interview rounds, you can still be rejected from one team and try for the other, if recruiter suggests it. In that case, you will need to redo the behavioural interviews. The technical one is done only once though, so it is really important to nail it. The technical interview itself wasn’t super hard or tricky, with the right amount of motivation and persistence you can really be ready for it and easily pass. The code is given ahead of the interview, which helps even more. Overall, a technically transparent process. In total I was trying to interview for 3 different teams. The first position got filled very fast, after which a recruiter referred me to another recruiter to try for a different team. I had my interview with the hiring manager, but it didn’t go super well. The interviewer was a bit rude and sometimes almost outright laughed at some of my responses. We didn’t click and I received a rejection. A little while later the recruiter reached out again and suggested to try for a different team. From there on the process went much smoother and faster, I went through my final two behavioural interviews in one week and each interviewer seemed extremely nice. I did have to wait two more weeks for them to go through the other candidates, but ultimately I received the offer and accepted. Overall the hiring process is not too hard, but can be very long. Sometimes recruiters might also ghost you, but moderate persistence is key here. Behavioural interviews are pretty standard but still feel like conversations, rather interrogations. If not for the super long wait and occasional ghosting I would say that this is one of the best interview processes among companies of this scale.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you manage yourself while working asynchronously?
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      Software Developer Interview

      23 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at GitLab

      Interview

      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.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      3 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at GitLab

      Interview

      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

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      About a time you had conflict with team member
      Answer question
      1

      Software Developer Interview

      26 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at GitLab in Nov 2025

      Interview

      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.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Vue & Rails based code review
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