I agree we can do a lot better in project discovery on GitLab.com. I do want to mention that https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=gi... gives results in a few seconds and GitLab itself is the first hit.

Want any help?

I don't have any interesting answers for your hiring filters.

The culture you've built is very rare. I realized that if I felt that way, then I should try to help it become the norm.

We always want help, you can contribute directly or apply to work via http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/jira.html

We take all applications seriously but if you feel you got rejected for a bad reason feel free to contact me directly.

I think your link may be an errant copy paste :)

I guess you meant to paste: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

Yeah, that was the page that convinced me I should try to join. But,

"A note on the technical interview: As part of our interviewing process, you may be asked to pick an issue from the GitLab CE issue tracker, and code ‘live’ with the interviewer there to talk with and collaborate with. We do this because we believe that it is the best way for you to see what the work is really like, and for our interviewer to see how you think, code, and collaborate." Actually, it's the opposite of how to find out how I think and code.

Do you have a profile on GitLab.com, GitHub or Bitbucket?

No.

What (open source) project that you built or contributed to are you particularly proud of / passionate about?

None.

Were you referred by a current GitLab team member?

No.

I once discovered that one of the most effective developers in the world would've had similar answers.

Is there an extension to hide downvotes, ungray all comments, and hide karma count? If not, I'm going to write one.

I know it's just an errant downvote, and people can feel however they want. But the information is no longer useful.

Given those answers, you really seem to clash with gitlab's culture, regardless of how good a programmer you may be.

We also hire people that never contributed to open source but that are great people and are open to our values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values

Yes, thanks for correcting me!

Will you give me a real-world task and see how well I do?

Assessing a candidate is as simple (and as hard) as that. Watching someone while they code isn't useful. https://data.triplebyte.com/take-home-interviews-d7f7ea13067...

Just give me something real to work on.

We give you something real to work on but we'll be in a Google Hangout to discuss it with you: "As part of our interviewing process, you may be asked to pick an issue from the GitLab CE issue tracker, and code ‘live’ with the interviewer there to talk with and collaborate with."

For an in-house installation, it would also be useful to have an editable front page of some sort. Here, you could publish notable projects, or perhaps the ones most sought after. It would also be a channel for news, faqs, etc.

I created an issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13239.

Thanks, you can use the branded login page for information in the homepage https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489

Issue search has a lot of room for improvement. All terms in the search query must occur consecutively.

Totally agree, I hope it will get better after we enable Elastic Search on GitLab.com in a few days.

Totally agree on the project discovery bit. Noticed the same thing when I played with it. I added a couple tickets to try and encourage them to fix it.

* Increase the prominence of gitlab hosted projects on about.gitlab. Project search, trending, curated lists. - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/558

* Trending project data by language (js, ruby etc) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13475

* Allow projects to flag themselves as looking for contributors - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13502

Give them a +1 maybe they will put resources on making gitlab more oss friendly

Thanks you for creating those insightful issues, much appreciated.

That will definitely hurt the FOSS community adopting them, but they're becoming very appealing for private projects. At work I use BitBucket, but GitLab now has better looking Issues, and with built-in CI it's becoming hard for me to resist switching.