[codetrotter]

We use GitLab in the company I work for. There may be repositories created by others in the company, that depend on repos I work on, where I don’t have access to said other repos. So to me these are invisible. If everything was in one monorepo, it’d all be visible to me easily.

[Kwpolska]

That’s more of a culture thing. Your company chose to enforce more granular permissions. Perhaps there are good reasons behind it, e.g. code for different clients being under different contracts and NDAs.

[jkrems]

That's a question of policy, not of repo structure. A monorepo can still have certain parts of the repo protected by access control. One repo doesn't mean "all files share one read permission".