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Thanks! And I think Connor created his own luck. People were assuming he already worked at GitLab since he was so active on social media and on our issue tracke

by sytse 10y ago

Thanks! And I think Connor created his own luck. People were assuming he already worked at GitLab since he was so active on social media and on our issue trackers. If you consistently contribute to GitLab it is very hard for us not to hire you.

radicalbyte 10y ago
It's such a crazy effective way to hire people. Luckily most companies don't understand it ;-)
Cyph0n 10y ago
That's a pretty effective hiring method in my opinion. You guys should publish a blog post or something on your hiring practices and results - I'm sure the HN crowd would enjoy it.
- sytse 10y ago
  Thanks, our hiring practices are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ what kinds of results should we include? I'm also thinking about writing about an open organization, where the handbooks and issue trackers are public. Would that be interesting?
  - broodbucket 10y ago
    Yeah, definitely. It's an interesting concept, I didn't know about the handbooks being public, seeing employees interacting on issues in the open and seeing the company's strategy be posted publicly is very cool.
- agibsonccc 10y ago
  Not to jump on to the gitlab bandwagon here. Adam from Skymind (YC W16) here I just want to say the last 4 hires we've made (we're only 11 soon 12) have been from around the world (we're in 4 countries) and this has worked great for us. A thriving open source community is key to hiring for us. A lot of our team does some sort of traveling. I myself will be working from tokyo (currently in korea actually..) moving from SF. We make the time zones work :D. Key to that for us has been gitter where we can collaborate/support the open source community while also being able to use it for collaborating with partners and running things like training classes. Just wanted to provide another example to prove gitlab isn't an anomaly. The same is true for a lot of the larger open source organizations (eg: canonical,redhat,automattic)
  - sytse 10y ago
    Thanks for chiming in Adam. Good to hear you're making it work. I think having a HQ is overrated. Technology is shrinking distance and making it easier to avoid the commute.
vonklaus 10y ago
I want to work on growth for Gitlab. Where are you guys seeing problems in market penetration so I can fill out an application[0]. [0] pun intented. edit: To anyone interested, this is the public haml file that generates their website, to which they encourage contributions. So a pull request job application it is.
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by sytse 10y ago

radicalbyte 10y ago

It's such a crazy effective way to hire people. Luckily most companies don't understand it ;-)

Cyph0n 10y ago

That's a pretty effective hiring method in my opinion. You guys should publish a blog post or something on your hiring practices and results - I'm sure the HN crowd would enjoy it.

sytse 10y ago
Thanks, our hiring practices are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ what kinds of results should we include? I'm also thinking about writing about an open organization, where the handbooks and issue trackers are public. Would that be interesting?
- broodbucket 10y ago
  Yeah, definitely. It's an interesting concept, I didn't know about the handbooks being public, seeing employees interacting on issues in the open and seeing the company's strategy be posted publicly is very cool.
agibsonccc 10y ago
Not to jump on to the gitlab bandwagon here. Adam from Skymind (YC W16) here I just want to say the last 4 hires we've made (we're only 11 soon 12) have been from around the world (we're in 4 countries) and this has worked great for us. A thriving open source community is key to hiring for us. A lot of our team does some sort of traveling. I myself will be working from tokyo (currently in korea actually..) moving from SF. We make the time zones work :D. Key to that for us has been gitter where we can collaborate/support the open source community while also being able to use it for collaborating with partners and running things like training classes. Just wanted to provide another example to prove gitlab isn't an anomaly. The same is true for a lot of the larger open source organizations (eg: canonical,redhat,automattic)
- sytse 10y ago
  Thanks for chiming in Adam. Good to hear you're making it work. I think having a HQ is overrated. Technology is shrinking distance and making it easier to avoid the commute.

vonklaus 10y ago

I want to work on growth for Gitlab. Where are you guys seeing problems in market penetration so I can fill out an application[0]. [0] pun intented. edit: To anyone interested, this is the public haml file that generates their website, to which they encourage contributions. So a pull request job application it is.

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