GitLab
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GitLab currently holds a 3.7 Blind rating from 163 reviews. Core product: Imported from companies. Strongest marks: work-life balance and compensation. Recent pulse: 3.8 from 10 reviews in the last 60 days.
- Overall
- 1.48 Amazons
- Recent 60d (10)
- 2.28 Amazons
- Perception
- 0.93 Amazons
- Recent delta
- +0.80 Amazons
- Perception delta
- -0.55 Amazons
- Reviews
- 163
- Perception votes
- 16
- Last updated
- May 30, 2026
- Status
- Unknown
Distribution
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Score
1.48 Amazons
Percentile
68th
Companies
221
Peak bin
39
Metric breakdown
Overall rating
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Recent 60 days
Average across reviews from the last 60 days, using up to 10 of the latest stored review cards.
Career growth
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Compensation / Benefits
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Management
How employees rate leadership quality and decision-making.
Work life balance
The balance score used when sorting for sustainability.
Company culture
How employees rate the day-to-day environment and team culture.
Public perception
Elo score
1193
Confidence band
+- 118
Public record
9W / 7L
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Latest review list
10 reviews from the last 60 days
1. May 27, 2026
Management is Sinking the ship
5.0Current Employee / Software Developer
Pros: Gitlab is an amazing place to work, but values and culture is declining because of poor management.
Cons: I do not like the management and how it is responding to everything, I think we should bring back sid.
2. May 19, 2026
Good company with bad management
4.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Great WLB, colleagues and good compensation. Unlimited vacation is great. Culture is nice but won’t last for long..
Cons: Leadership doesn’t know what to do. Too many changes ahead and unclear roadmaps.
3. May 18, 2026
Great WLB and flexibility but bad management
4.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: People are nice, easy to work with. Used to have great culture
Cons: Sinking ship, values eroding fast, C levels cant write anything without AI
4. May 18, 2026
Seems to be going downhill from where it was couple of years ago
3.0Current Employee / Senior Software Engineer
Pros: Remote, flexible work culture and pay is still on the upper side
Cons: Poor management, where leadership doesn’t know what they are doing anymore
5. May 13, 2026
Formally great company ruined by management
3.0Current Employee / Engineer
Pros: Remote, good work life balance, coworkers are genuinely collaborative and great to work with
Cons: Leadership is absolutely atrocious. The entire e-group has no vision or plan to get there. Lack of communication. Understaffed in key areas. It was once a great company to work for, but now it’s just like every other company with a narci...
6. May 11, 2026
Good people bad leadership
3.0Current Employee / Engineer
Pros: In my part and some parts of the company, culture and morale is still high and leadership is supportive
Cons: Executive leadership have no clear direction for the product, overall morale is low
7. May 8, 2026
still has great work life balance and culture despite complete replacement of upper management
4.0Current Employee / Staff Software Engineer
Pros: still has great work life balance and culture despite complete replacement of upper management
Cons: struggling to implement cohesive AI strategy - internally and in product
8. April 16, 2026
Opportunity is significant
5.0Current Employee / Senior Solution Architect
Pros: Fast changing culture to align to the market opportunity Product fit with AI is is exciting CIO/CTO demand is strong in enterprise
Cons: Change is hard anywhere but the whole industry is going through it. If you haven’t seen change in a tech company before, you will have views similar to those exiting where I see it as normal maturation during a growth phase.
9. April 16, 2026
The company is more or less done
3.0Current Employee / Solutions Architect
Pros: Some good people are still around. SCM and CI are great. The rest are meh.
Cons: C-level has destroyed the company inside out. Culture is dying. Attrition thru the roof.
10. April 7, 2026
The manager is key
4.0Current Employee / Solutions Architect
Pros: If you have a great manager I think GitLab can be a great place to work. You can organize your work extremely freely and there is a lot that you can shape and everything is considered WIP.
Cons: The push to AI feels immature and the SA org is doing a fulltime job managing customer expectations, arguing against pricing and collecting feedback. The amount of tasks where are responsible for increased drastically while it feels like...