WTH GitLab?
I applied to GitLab as a Backend Engineer and received the following response: "We’ve reviewed your application and have decided not to move forward at this time because of our longevity requirement. When a candidate has more than 5 years of work experience, we want to see that they’ve stayed for at least 2 years at one company." Could someone from GitLab explain this to me? I have held numerous positions at different companies each with tenure above 2 years.
Brutal, would they prefer you leave out useful content from the CV instead?
At least they gave you a reason
So they misread your resume or something? If so, email them back...
I don’t think they are asking for too much.
Companies invest a lot in their employees. As someone who helps make decisions when hiring someone, I look at candidate's work history. How long someone stays at a company gives the me how well they can roll with the punches that most companies experience. If someone looks like they might bounce when they feel slighted, I'm going to prefer someone who can stick things out.
If you want me to stick , then pay as market rate. I feel cheated when pay is low.
Are you mother Theresa? People do quality work for a company in 6 months that a lot of the time brings in more money than their salary. If that’s your view on hiring, maybe your shouldn’t be the one doing the hiring. People with your viewpoints create an environment of shitty economic activity
Just want to add that in 2020, this is still a FIRM but DUMB requirement. I have MULTIPLE jobs where I stayed between 3-8 years. But then I took a break and my last and current job is less than 2 years each. GitLab wants to see you stay for a MINIMUM of 2 years in the LAST 2 companies. So for someone with my situation, I am immediately disqualified for ANY GitLab jobs for the next 4 years till I meet the requirement.
This is incredibly short sighted unless they are willing to give more than COLA increases and help a great deal with retirement (don’t know their match policy).
Speaking as someone from Gitlab, personally I think it's because it's harder to onboard at Gitlab initially because the company is so unique. They want to see you're not going to leave at first sign of challenge. That being said, I got in with only 2 yoe but I have niche skillset, so tbh they probably just said that because they saw something they didn't like and just gave that as the reason
I mean, it’s not absurd to want to make sure you get return on investment.
This is shit message. It’s Bay Area no one stay more than 2 yrs,