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GitLab Handbook
- dang 7y agoRelated from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091638
- warpech 7y agoValve is famous for their handbook, too: https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/21/2964991/valves-handbook-for-new-employees-leak https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/21/2964991/valves-handbook-f...
- durpleDrank 7y agoTheir handbook is better documentation than what they offer for the product.
- harrisonjackson 7y agoWe've recently migrated to them from github + jira + self-hosted jenkins + self-hosted private npm. Do you have a specific gripe? We definitely have fewer issues with them than those other services combined.
- time0ut 7y agoI've found their documentation to be pretty good. Especially compared to bitbucket, which I found to be unacceptably poor.
- ShakataGaNai 7y agoSuch as? The biggest issue I've ever had with GitLab documentation is that one time I ran across a case where the docs for a few feature were published (by accident) before the feature was. Support figured it out and I had to wait no more than a couple weeks for the feature.
- beckingz 7y agoGitLab's SQL style guide is one of the best I've seen.
- kiwicopple 7y agoLink for anyone looking: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/sql-style-guide/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/sql...
- veritas3241 7y agoWe link to three others at the bottom of our guide that have heavily inspired us https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/sql-style-guide/#other-sql-style-guides https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/sql... Thanks for the kind words! * https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/corp/blob/master/dbt_coding_conventions.md#sql-style-guide https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/corp/blob/master/dbt_c... * https://github.com/mattm/sql-style-guide https://github.com/mattm/sql-style-guide * https://gist.github.com/fredbenenson/7bb92718e19138c20591 https://gist.github.com/fredbenenson/7bb92718e19138c20591
- nbulka 7y agoI applied for an Engineering role at Gitlab. I didn't make it past the initial interview screening and politely asked for feedback in order to grow professionally. I never heard back from the recruiter or company after that yet their handbook says: "If the candidate asks for further feedback, only offer frank feedback. This is hard, but it is part of our company values." I always wondered if it was because I questioned the policy of paying people differently based on their location (more specifically, some algorithm's idea of the rent in their area) rather than the work they do.
- MediumD 7y agoMy guess would be that it's very easy to write down a value, but much harder to actually practice that value consistently.
- GitLabWatchDog 7y agoDing! Ding! Ding! You hit the nail on the hammer. They write it all down but do you really think anyone actually reads or follows the handbook? It has to be thousands of pages long! It is all for show so they can write blogs about it and try to impress the public with their so called “radical transparency.” It is obvious by all the recent news articles and information leaking out from current and past employees that it is just a facade. It won’t be long until they are fully exposed and we see they are just another greedy startup like WeWork or Away with some crazy CEO putting on a show for the public while putting fear into the employees.
- dvtrn 7y agoI questioned the policy of paying people differently based on their location (more specifically, some algorithm's idea of the rent in their area) rather than the work they do Interesting, there was a moment maybe a year and a half ago where I wanted to work for Gitlab, but upon learning precisely this I changed my mind. Not necessarily just that pay was location based, but reading through the Global Compensation page just felt very...I dunno, cold and dispassionate? There's probably a better way to phrase the sensation, because I'm certain this wasn't their intent, but the right descriptor eludes me presently.
- orf 7y agoGitlab Unfiltered[1] is pretty cool. Say what you want about Gitlab, but they go hard on the openness aspect of things. I can't think of another company that is on the same level as them - streaming meetings and other stuff on Youtube almost seems like overkill. 1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtZ0sc1HHNtGGWZFDRTh5A/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtZ0sc1HHNtGGWZFDRTh5A/
- stonogo 7y agoThey're open when it doesn't matter. When it does, they go just as hard in the other direction: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/diversity-and-inclusion/issues/48 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/diversity-and-inclusion/issues... About which more here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/gitlab_sales_women/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/gitlab_sales_women/
- oblio 7y agoThe first link 404s.
- relaunched 7y agoI believe the company determined that diversity and inclusion issues are private by default - they used to be pubic.
- relaunched 7y agoSuper open, except when it comes to compliance https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/resignation-at-gitlab-highlights-concerns-over-corporate-espionage-11573686134 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/resign... Or women https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/02/03/gitlab_proclaims_diversity/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/02/03/gitlab_proclaim... Or my wife: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/corporate-law/former-top-gitlab-lawyer-fired-as-company-moves-towards-ipo https://news.bloomberglaw.com/corporate-law/former-top-gitla...
- pibefision 7y agoI will buy this handbook as a real book. It's great content. I know it changes all the time, but buy it as an Nth edition will be great.
- Dramatize 7y agoI like the section on the CEO: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/#flaws https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/#flaws
- woutr_be 7y agoFor some reason, that rubs me the wrong way. I had a manager who acted the same way, told us all his flaws and then expected us to cater towards him, without him making much effort. If anything went wrong, and we somehow didn't cater to his flaws, he would blame us for it. He also came into one of our retrospectives, and said "I'm feeling really emotional today, so I might act a bit strange". Everyone asked him to leave so the rest of the team could have our retrospective, but he insisted on stay and just asked everyone to be aware of it. Of course nothing productive came out of that meeting, in fact, I'm pretty sure that's why a few engineers resigned.
- rkangel 7y agoI was pretty impressed with the tone of that section. It was very clearly giving people permission to pick him up on it when one of those traits came up, which is the opposite of your example. The interesting question to me is whether the CEO needs to be a special case. We all have flaws, how should this be handled? Surely the important thing is that the company culture is such that people feel ok with (politely) pointing out these behaviours? Or is the CEO always going to be a special case where they're constantly in contact withe people many layers below them and that isn't a realistic expectation?
- __initbrian__ 7y agohttps://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compensation/calculator/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen...
- gregkerzhner 7y agoFor an alternative fully remote company that pays people based on their skills, not where they happen to live, check out InVision!