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Re: Community Contribution at GitLab

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Post by mdekkers » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

intelVISA wrote: post #25

Nick_vh wrote: post #23

GitLab team member here ( https://gitlab.com/nick_vh ) It's amazing to see how all our resources have been put together to create such an exhaustive reflection of our culture & values. Thank you for doing that GarethX. GitLab's dual flywheel strategy [0] reinforces our open source growth strategy [1] For those interested, you can learn about GitLab's stewardship promises in our handbook [2] and inspect the Git histor…

Does GitLab still endorse abusive employment practices like limiting salary by geographic region? No horse in the non-globally-competitive race, just amusingly regressive to see.

For some reason I keep getting job offers from Gitlab and that salary nonsense is always a hard pass. Whatever do they get off reaching into my private life like that. That isn’t the only thing in their handbook that makes me go hmmm and all in it doesn’t come across as a place id like to work or a leadership team I would respect.

Re: Community Contribution at GitLab

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Post by xyzzy_plugh » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

mdekkers wrote: post #31

intelVISA wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does GitLab still endorse abusive employment practices like limiting salary by geographic region? No horse in the non-globally-competitive race, just amusingly regressive to see.

For some reason I keep getting job offers from Gitlab and that salary nonsense is always a hard pass. Whatever do they get off reaching into my private life like that. That isn’t the only thing in their handbook that makes me go hmmm and all in it doesn’t come across as a place id like to work or a leadership team I would respect.

Private life? Could you elaborate?

Re: Community Contribution at GitLab

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Post by mdekkers » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:31 PM UTC

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #32

mdekkers wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason I keep getting job offers from Gitlab and that salary nonsense is always a hard pass. Whatever do they get off reaching into my private life like that. That isn’t the only thing in their handbook that makes me go hmmm and all in it doesn’t come across as a place id like to work or a leadership team I would respect.

Private life? Could you elaborate?

Where I live is a private decision. That should have zero influence on how much they pay me. To me, that comes across as “we will determine your standard of living” and that is incredibly toxic.

Re: Community Contribution at GitLab

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Post by Xiol32 » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 5:18 PM UTC

cardanome wrote: post #16

Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Still pissed they dropped their Starter licensing tier. It had all the features above the free version that we needed and cost (I think) $4/user/month. Then they dropped that tier and forced us to move to the next tier up which was $19/user/month (now $29 it seems?) and filled with features we don't need or want. Needless to say we're currently in the process of moving to an alternative.

Just curious, why not just self-host if you are worried about pricing? It is pretty easy and you have full control.

We do self-host but features are still gated behind licensing.