What to expect in the GitLab - Engineering - Remote interview process

## GitLab Software Engineer Interview Guide & Process GitLab is one of the pioneers of all-remote work. Everything is documented in their public handbook. They look for strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and async communication skills. ### 1. Recruiter Screen (30 mins) Discussion about your background and GitLab's remote culture. ### 2. Technical Assessment Depending on the role, this might be a technical screen or an async Merge Request (MR) review where you evaluate a piece of code as if you were a maintainer. ### 3. Technical & Behavioral Interviews (3 hours) - **Deep Dive:** Going through a past project, discussing architecture, challenges, and tradeoffs. - **Pairing Session:** Live coding to solve a backend/infrastructure problem. - **Behavioral:** Focused on their CREDIT values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, Transparency).