AMAs
What you need to know about Ask Me Anything (AMA)
About GitLab
Being a public company
GitLab as a Public Company In 2017, GitLab established aspirational milestones for a public offering, achieving $1B of annualized recurring revenue, and positive operating cash flow in order to align our efforts and investments to common goals. GitLab began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on October 14, 2021 under the ticker symbol “GTLB.”
We continue to believe that being a public company is an integral part of realizing our mission.
Cadence
Everything in a company happens in a certain cadence. The period of each cadence differs. Learn about the cadences we have at GitLab.
E-Group offsite
The E-Group offsite happens every quarter for four days after the Board of Directors meeting
E-Group Weekly
For executives to connect on a weekly basis in order to get timely input from E-Group, align on key initiatives, inform about key business happenings and celebrate company successes.
Family and Friends Day
At GitLab, we are family and friends first, work second. A quarterly Family and Friends Day during COVID-19 helps our Team Members prioritize their well-being.
GitLab All-Company Meetings
An overview of GitLab Assembly and Quarterly Kickoff Meetings
GitLab Culture
Here's a look at what you can expect from our culture and all-remote environment.
GitLab Environmental, Social, and Governance
An overview of corporate sustainability at GitLab.
GitLab licensing technology to independent Chinese company FAQ
On this page you can view frequently asked questions about GitLab licensing its technology to a new, independent Chinese company.
GitLab Mission
We at GitLab believe that all digital products should be open to contributions; from legal documents to movie scripts, and from websites to chip designs.
GitLab Purpose
GitLab empowers everyone through knowledge sharing, job access, and our software platform.
GitLab Strategy
GitLab has a 3 year strategy to be the leading complete DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application.
GitLab Vision
Behind the scenes of The DevSecOps Platform
Group Conversations
Everything you need to know about GitLab's daily, recurring Group Conversations
History of GitLab
Review a summarised history of GitLab and the adventure so far from 2011 up until the present day. Learn more here!
Inspired by GitLab
Which companies can be listed here? Any company that has been inspired by GitLab’s culture and/or by any part of our handbook can be listed here.
Transparency is one of GitLab’s values, and so we encourage you and your company to read our handbook and use the parts that make sense to your business, or even adapt it to your context.
With that, we want to know what on GitLab’s culture or on GitLab’s handbook inspired you, and how are you and your company using it to the benefit your business?
Key Reviews
Purpose At most companies, this would be a quarterly meeting for senior function leaders to present priorities, progress, and risk mitigations to the CEO. We allow some additional stakeholders to attend to invite a broader range of perspectives, give visibility to peers across functions, and create broader accountability.
Members of E-Group and department leaders nominated by their E-Group leader can be required or optional. Their E-Group member will determine desired participation from within their function.
KPIs
What are KPIs Every part of GitLab has Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) linked to the company OKRs. Avoid the term metric where we can be more explicit. Use KPI instead. A function’s KPIs are owned by the respective member of e-group. A function may have many performance indicators (PIs) they track and not all of them will be KPIs. KPIs should be a subset of PIs and used to indicate the most important PIs to be surfaced to leadership.
Meet Our Team
More than 3,000 people have contributed to GitLab. The GitLab Inc. team consists of the following 2,262 team members and their 363+ pets. We believe we’re the world’s largest all-remote organization and we currently have team members in more than 65 countries and regions. This page lists who people report to, and on a separate page we detail the organizational structure. You can get a sense of the team culture and our inclusion by visiting our culture page and our Identity Data page.
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
OKRs stands for Objective-Key Results and are our quarterly objectives. OKRs are how to achieve the goal of the Key Performance Indicators KPIs.
Only Healthy Constraints
Companies often slow down as they mature. GitLab strives for healthy constraints.
Organizational Structure
GitLab has at most eight layers in the company structure (Associate/Intermediate/Senior, Manager/Staff, Senior Manager/Principal, Director/Distinguished, Senior Director, VP/Fellow, Executives, Board). View more here!
Our stewardship of GitLab
GitLab have an open core business model and generate almost all our revenue with subscriptions to paid tiers. Learn more!
Pricing model
Most GitLab functionality is and will be available for free in our Free tier. Paid tiers include features targeted for managers, directors, and executives.
Quote to Cash
GitLab's Quote to Cash systems and processes
Still a Startup
GitLab elevates others through knowledge sharing, job access, and our software platform..
Working Groups
Like all groups at GitLab, a working group is an arrangement of people from different functions. Learn more!
Yearlies
Yearlies are the annual goals for the company. Yearlies should have measurable deliverables.
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