[icxa]

Not to heap it on...but ok who am I kidding I am heaping it on: I had a terrible interview experience with them.

Basically there was a period on HN where every other post was about stupid hiring practices and how absurd some code interviews were. Well Gitlab embodied all of them.

They phone interview quizzed me on several "gotcha" questions, and finally I was asked to describe Prototypical inheritance (JS), in which I was knowledgeable about and gave a very detailed and technical answer, in my own words (so not some memorized wikipedia answer), and basically what I got back from the recruiter was in essence, "Nope that's not what this piece of paper I have in front of me says the answer is" that is that although I had answered the question technically correctly, it wasn't the type of answer they were looking for.

Anyways, not salty about it anymore because it seems like I dodged a real bullet.

[dplgk]

Yuck, the phone interview sounds like exactly why I didn't make it to the phone interview. I answered their 2 pre questions via web form... Very detailed answers although the questions were annoyingly vague on how much detail to include. Definitely qualified or even over qualified for the role and got a "not moving forward" with no explanation. Kindly asked for an explanation so I could improve and got so response. I'm leaning towards ageism because I have nearly 20 yrs experience.

[liammcnally3000]

Hi,

I am Liam a Recruiting Lead for Gitlab. I would be very keen to set up a time to talk through your interview experience.

[icxa]

Hi Liam, I think the comment captures the essence of what feedback I would have and I am not interested in providing anymore feedback, no offense I am busy, but appreciate your willingness to learn and grow, sounds like the company could have used a few more people like you at the time I interviewed (was 2 years ago now).