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      Frontend Engineer Interview

      Feb 21, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at GitLab (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2019

      Interview

      Overall an enjoyable process. Had 4 interviews total. The interviews were spread out over 3 weeks but the whole process from start to finish took around 6 weeks because it was in December around the holiday season. The first interview was a 15 -20 minute screening with basic questions. The second interview was a technical interview. For the technical interview I was sent an invite to a MR a few days before the interview and was instructed to review the MR and make comments. In the interview I was instructed to share my screen and make the changes that I suggested in the MR. Though it is always a bit nerve-wracking writing code in front of someone the interviewer did a good job making it feel like it like a discussion and less of a test. The third interview was with the Director of Engineering (dev) and was mostly questions about past experience with a few technical questions thrown in. This interview was enjoyable and the interviewer did a good job making it feel like a conversation rather than an interview. The last interview was probably the hardest and was made up of 20 - 25 STAR questions. Overall this was the least enjoyable interview of them all as there was really no conversation to the interview. It mostly consisted of myself answering the question and then the interviewer moving on to the next question without any discussion. After the interviews I was asked to provide 3 references and complete a background check. GitLab contacted all three references and once the background check was completed I received an offer. A few days after the offer was received I was provided an official contract.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Tell me about a time you iterated on a problem
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Tell me about a time you made a mistake, how did you fix it?
      Answer question
      3

      Other Frontend Engineer Interview Reviews for GitLab

      Frontend Engineer Interview

      Dec 22, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at GitLab in Dec 2021

      Interview

      Their interview process as detailed in their handbook is accurate. You're connected with a recruiter. You do an initial screening interview discussing your skills and motivations, typical interview subjects. You move on to a technical assessment where they give you a merge request to review (in this role, HTML, CSS, Vue) in your own time. Then, you meet and make the changes you suggested in a live coding session. It was very relaxed and the interviewers were very understanding even if I was a little nervous. Their front end positions closed before they could find a spot for me. However, the recruiters made a big effort to connect and try to find a good place for me, and encouraged me to reach back out in the future. Their effort made it feel like they really valued my time and my skills. I really appreciated theirs! Overall, incredibly professional and communicative.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Review the MR and suggest changes to the code.
      1 Answer
      2

      Frontend Engineer Interview

      Mar 27, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at GitLab in Mar 2020

      Interview

      First interview was a behavioral screening interview which was pretty standard. For the technical interview I was given a small merge request to review with a few changes. There was maybe 30 lines of SCSS, 10 lines of Javascript, and 30 lines of html/haml. The instructions merely told me to look over the requirements and suggest some changes to the code, and to download the code and make sure I could run it locally. I saw a few style and performance issues but overall the MR appeared to adequately implement the changes suggested in the requirements. I left a comment with a few of the things I noticed. At the interview, I showed the interviewer my comments with a few changes I had come up with. He immediately told me I hadn't left enough suggested changes in my comments. The interviewer seemed overall uninterested in what I had to say, even when I came up with some more suggestions of things that could be changed. He seemed eager to end the interview and ended the interview after only a few minutes. I didn't even get a chance to write one line of code. I spent 4-5 hours preparing for this interview, reading over all the email and materials, setting up the dependencies, running the code locally, and went over the MR several times to try and find any changes to be made to help it more closely match the requirements. There really wasn't a lot to go off of and the code appeared to function correctly according to the requirements - it did what the requirements said it needed to do. I set up a call with the recruiter to give feedback on my experience and she basically invalidated my feedback. When I told her that it wasn't clear to me that I would be coming up with everything to do during the interview on my own, and that the changes I suggested would be the only content in the interview, she told me that it was very clear in her opinion what had to be done during the interview in the email. I got the sense that the position was no longer available, but that the staff wasn't being transparent with me about this and was giving me short shrift. - EDIT I received a polite email a few weeks later stating that the position was indeed no longer available. It's disappointing to have an experience like this at a company that boasts transparency as one of its core values. I would have preferred for the interviewers to tell me up front that the position was no longer available instead of wasting my time and acting like I had somehow failed the interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What are the changes you suggested and how would you implement them?
      Answer question
      14

      Frontend Engineer Interview

      Feb 11, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GitLab in Jan 2020

      Interview

      Everything would have been great if they didn't forget to inform me of the feedback to my last interview. I waited for 7 days and then sent an email, to which they answered quite quickly. So I was definitely forgotten by them, and it left a slightly negative impression on the overall process. Otherwise, I've met only nice people and had good time being interviewed by them.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Why GitLab?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Tell me a bit about yourself.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Pull request with many bugs and bad code examples. Live coding with a senior developer.
      Answer question
      2

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