Please note that this isn't required, we hire a lot of people who never contributed to GitLab before getting hired.
I've asked our recruiters to comment as well.
While we do keep the bar quite high from a technical perspective, we also do so as it relates to our values. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/ With us going through this current hyper-growth phase we have to make sure that everyone who comes into GitLab aligns with these.
For Engineering hires in the month of June we averaged ~65 days to move someone all the way through the interview process.
I am more than willing to set up some time to chat with you 1:1 if you have any more questions.
Thanks for your time!
That's very kind of you to offer! Can I send over a few questions over email closer to the time I'll be applying? I don't see an email address in your profile, can you post your email id here? Thanks.
Do you have some foreign engineers staying in Japan? I want to stay in japan with proper visa if necessary.
- Start contributing non-trivial patches to the community edition
- showcase my skills through side projects which will be rails webapps
- brush up on my CS fundamentals for the interview
From the outside, the bar seems quite high, I remember coming across a tweet mentioning 20,000 applications over the past few months. Any other suggestions on how I can improve my chances? And how long does the hiring process take from my application to accepted/rejected? Thanks.