The process started with the hiring manager going on vacation and leaving someone with < 4 months at the company and < 1 year of DevOps experience in charge. That person argued everything from terraform features that didn't exist to saying that you should be able to reach a GitLab install in Kubernetes with an IP on port 80. You can't. That's not possible through the ingress created by the GitLab installer. The team had no experience and no idea how the GitLab Helm Chart was supposed to work and, when demonstrated a fully working demo, pretended like they completely understood at the end and didn't ask any questions about how it was used.
Then they talked about surfing when asked about GitLab. Surfing.
Email requests for feedback were ignored for a week. I had to find someone to answer what the feedback was. Feedback left was nonsensical.
There is no way to reapply or appeal at GitLab. Sid says he's "okay" with mistakes that lead to qualified candidates not getting a position as long as the team can move forward in the same culture cliques that GitLab decries - brogrammers protecting bros and letting bros interview candidates where they have no business being interviewers. It's a bro-lottery applying to this team where if you're unlucky enough to get the youngest team member you will lose.
