Applied in the second week of January and didn't hear from a recruiter until end of February. The recruiter showed up 6 minutes late and did not apologize for it. For the next 15 minutes was disingenuous, disinterested and condescending. Failed to expand on the details of the position or the team. When asked further about the role, sent me a link to the GitLab CI/CD documentation. This company can't even tell a solid Software Engineer from a Rails coder. Here's a piece of advice for Gitlab: RoR IS NOT A TECH STRATEGY.

All interviews took about a month. After I sent the application I was contacted by the hiring manager to organize a Zoom call. This was the general screening call, after that a technical interview followed. Before the technical interview I was sent a task, which was to review a merge request and provide comments on it. During the call I had to explain my comments and then share my screen to fix the tests in order for CI pipeline to pass. After that a behavioral interview with a team manager followed. After that the final interview, more or less the same as before was scheduled with a director of engineering. Three days after the final interview, which I thought went fine I received more or less standard email that GItlab will not be proceeding with my application. The reason was quite vague, the engineering team simply did not want to proceed. I understand that Gitlab aims for the great fit and tech skills, and almost all of the applications are rejected, but I feel like I spent 5 hours doing the interviews and double that preparing for the interviews for no reason. I would have prefer to be rejected ASAP so it would save everyone's time. The people I was interviewing were friendly, helpful and transparent. It's just that final decision was far from transparent, but that's life I guess.

The interview consisted in multiple steps, starting with the first screening call with a person from HR. All the interview got easy scheduled and the communication was good and clear. Next interview was technical and the next 3 were with managers and it was a discussion about technical and work flows. The technical interview was great, I really enjoyed it, I was very nervous but the pair did a great job guiding me on what I need to do. It was a pleasant experience for me. For the next interviews it was mainly discussions about workflows and also a couple of technical questions. In this interviews I had the chance to meet the team manager.