I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at GitLab in Jan 2024
Interview
I applied through the website and I received an email from the recruiter that they're interested and want to have a chat. In the call, they just said I don't have the right experience. They could've just said that in the email, waste of time.
Seemed very uninterested in the call as well and not the kind of interaction you'd expect.
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The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GitLab
Interview
First recruiter screening then a technical interview then you talk to the engineering manager and you get another technical interview with a take home assessment and finally a senior engineering manager interview
Nice people, contacted by recruiter, had a chat.
Talked to different people in the teams that made sense - very positive feedback. Then they decided to remove 2 SRE positions - 1 of them was the team I wanted to join. They assigned me to a different SRE position.
Technical assessment at home and then talked it through with a developer. He stayed distant but polite. They told me that it's fine that I don't know Ruby and Go so well but I got the feeling that this was not the case.
I didn't receive an offer and tried to find out more. I never heard back and got no feedback at all.
4 Stages including the initial call. All a very polished process and people were friendly, although the questions were tough. Due to it's global remote nature some interviews may be at earlier/later times than you'd expect
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is some feedback you received that you agreed with? And some that you didn't?