Not recommended. - Anonymous employee GitLab Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Base Salary good. OTE good - But you will never earn it. Fully remote.

Cons

One of the most toxic places I've ever worked. Sales leadership has no strategy, never stops to look deep, micro manages, set's unobtainable targets and does not listen.. Sales people are unhappy and demotivated across all departments. Demand for Gitlab is decreasing, competition is hot, no future product vision apart from a million updates every month, that customers can't keep up with. The company is obsessed with slack and async communications which has breed a company of people who don't want to speak to humans on zoom or meet face to face. If you ask for help they just refer you to 'the handbook'. Churn is a joke and highly demotivating! You spend months working on a deal, book it, earn some commission and then literally have it all taken away from you because another customer decided to downsize. Marketing do nothing. Sales people get practically zero inbound leads. The customer success team are non existent. No career prospects. And to top it all off you can often slack someone and they literally just ignore you. Non payment of commission on a focus/FO account.

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Cons

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Cons

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