GitLab Senior Backend Engineer interview questions

A GitLab recruiter reached out to me via email asking if I’d be up to discuss a potential opportunity. I agreed to a call, in which the recruiter shared information about the role. The next steps were: 1. an interview with the manager who was hiring, 2. a take-home challenge in a Rails app, 3. a technical interview about the take-home challenge, 4. an interview with the department director. In their rejection email, the recruiter suggested a call to talk about possible future opportunities. After this, their team sent out a feedback survey.

I actually liked the interview format as it was not typical leetcode. They asked me to review a PR. Passed that round and was setup to meet the team. Everything was good until now. I met the manager and some team members and believe the behavioural interview went well as well. And the radio silence. Countless emails sent to the recruiter with no reply. This is horrible as you put effort into preparing for the interviews and to just be ghosted after that is disgraceful. All it takes is a simple email to say that the position was filled or whatever the case. Found out later that other have experienced similar stuff with Gitlab. Shameful!