GitLab Direction
A few years ago I really wanted to join GitHub as a software engineer. I was living in San Francisco and visited their office for some events, and I thought it would be an awesome place to work. I tried reaching out to a few people who worked there, but I could never get my foot in the door.<p>There were a lot of things I would have loved to build at GitHub, and they were all the same things that GitLab is doing now. I felt that there was so much potential to build things like CI, DevOps, and eventually a PaaS to compete with Heroku. I really think they should have acquired something like TravisCI or CircleCI and made that part of their platform, but it seems like they haven&#x27;t really done anything significant in the last 5 years.<p>I&#x27;m a very happy user of GitLab now, and the product is awesome. But I don&#x27;t think I would ever join the company. First of all, they don&#x27;t pay competitive salaries for remote workers (cost-of-living adjustments). I also don&#x27;t think they have a very good company culture, and to be honest, it still feels a bit sketchy that they ripped off GitHub and undercut them on pricing. But I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll get over that eventually.