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Sid Sijbrandij: GitLab strictly bans presentations during internal company meetings
“At GitLab, you're not allowed to present in meetings.”
Sijbrandij: GitLab pays remote employees location-based rates, not uniform global salaries
“We pay people differently. We have a blog post about it, why we pay people local rates.”
Sid Sijbrandij: GitLab lists over 17 transparency exceptions, including salaries and M&A
“Because we're transparent by default, we have the longest list of things that aren't transparent. So if you Google GitLab communication, you'll find a long list. I think it's over 17 items of things that aren't transparent, and that includes salaries, that inc…”
GitLab receives over 190 monthly improvements from its open-source community
“Every month we have over a 190 improvements that come from the wider community.”
Williamson: SendGrid and GitLab required opportunity canvases and Amazon-style strategy docs
“There are two that we used at SendGrid and GitLab that I think were essential. One was a one pager called an opportunity canvas, which asked PMs to outline sort of the concept they wanted to build. And the other one, it's like a two to six pager. I think Kevin…”
Sid Sijbrandij: All GitLab executive group members reside in the US
“If I look at the e-group at GitLab, my reports, and all of them are located in the US.”
Sid Sijbrandij: GitLab maintains a public employee handbook of over 2,000 pages
“We have a strong written culture and it shows in our handbook of over 2000 pages where we detail how we work.”
Sijbrandij: GitLab's co-founder lacked running water when he launched the project
“When he started GitLab, he didn't have running water in his house, and he didn't have great collaboration software, and he picked the thing that wouldn't cost any money to make, because he was a developer, he could make this himself.”
GitLab Scaled Remote Team to Over 762 People Across 55 Countries
“Sid has scaled the team to over 762 team members across 55 countries, a fully remote team”
GitLab hosts company-wide gatherings every nine months alongside daily non-work breakout calls
“So at GitLab, we have a lot of different mechanisms in which we allow people to learn together, know each other outside of it like a transactional work setting. Examples are the coffee chats, travel stipends. We have a nine-monthly get-together, but also every…”
GitLab maintains monthly releases and rarely has project delays over six months
“So we have very few kind of canceled projects, and if something runs late, the worst thing at GitHub is if you miss a release. We have a monthly release, and then instead of one month, it takes two months, and that tends to happen, but we don't have things tha…”
Sijbrandij: GitLab's public employee handbook is over 3,000 pages long
“We have a handbook. It's public and creative comments. So lots of people are copying from it and being inspired by it, but it's over 3000 pages and it contains many of the things you would normally not find documented at other companies.”
Sijbrandij: GitLab will grow from 400 to 1,000 employees this year
“GitLab is now 650 people. We're growing this year from 402,000 people.”