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The following incentives are available for GitLab team members. Also see our separate page on benefits available to GitLab team members.
As of Q2 FY21 we have removed the IACV Target Dinner incentive.
The number of discretionary bonuses given divided by the total number of team members, in a given period as defined. The discretionary bonuses per team member target is > 0.1. This analysis can be found on the People Group Dashboard.
Discretionary bonuses are measured in BambooHR, as are the number of team members, in a given period as defined.
Discretionary bonuses are to celebrate team members that live by our values. To make sure we are recognizing the right behaviors, below are some criteria to help you decide if a bonus meets the requirements for approval.
Valid bonus criteria
Invalid bonus criteria
Examples of a valid discretionary bonus
The reason for the bonus is that this person (X, a Technical Writer) has single-handedly stepped in to act as a part-time documentation engineer in the absence of a full-time engineer.
The person's history of contributions is plain to see here: (Nominator included links to boards, issues or merge requests)
In particular, X's implementation of a Global Navigation and GitLab iconography for documentation are real highlights of X's impact for end-users. For developers, they have modernized the codebase and continues to work toward making gitlab-docs
just like any other GitLab project for developers. X's dedication to the Technical Writing team over a long period of time motivates me to do more than just thank X in #thanks channel. X has specifically: Been active to see the Technical Writing team to succeed: /handbook/values/#see-others-succeed. X delivers for the team in lots of MVCs: /handbook/values/#minimal-viable-change-mvc, so we can get early value. For example, making iconography available using Markdown first, and planning to deliver other implementations later. X solutions are boring: /handbook/values/#boring-solutions, in that X aims to reuse as much GitLab code as possible, and raising instances where that isn’t the case as technical debt. For example, docs icons are the same library as icons in the product.
I’d like to nominate X for a discretionary bonus for exhibiting the values for results, efficiency, and collaboration. While the whole backend engineers in the X team were OOO, despite it wasn’t his team, X stepped in and handled a problem (link) that was blocking a deploy. X was able to debug the problem, not an easy one by the way, communicate it to the different counterparts, and also fix it. X also spotted that it could affect other features and provide a way to fix them as well.
I am nominating X for the values efficiency and results for the Nominator Bot. This bot assists us to nominate a team member for Discretionary Bonus without logging into BambooHR. This new bot speeds up the process probably by half the time it took to get approvals (for both me that administers the process and managers for approval) and directly now impacts our PI to increase discretionary bonuses. X is managing all the debugging and going above and beyond to solve any problems, without anyone asking X or having to follow up and this is out of scope of "just building a nominator" bot. You can read more about the process in our handbook
Examples of invalid discretionary bonus
For managers: as a reminder, please make sure when you are submitting the bonus in BambooHR that your description is clear and includes the valid criteria data needed for managers and PBP to review and approve. Any bonus submitted that does not include clear and valid reasons for submittal may be denied and the manager will be asked to provide further content and details.
Note: Kindly use Nominator Bot for discretionary bonus requests instead of BambooHR.
Any GitLab team member
/nominate name of the team member
Manager Process
rejected_by_manager
. The bot will ask you to reach out to the nominator as to make sure they understand why the nomination was not approved.Total Rewards Process
#total-rewards-nominator-bot
asking to approve or reject the nomination.#total-rewards-nominator-bot
and ensure the date and amount transferred properly to the BambooHR profile.Note: If you received the same nomination twice (for the same person and the same reason), you may reject one. When you do this, please reach out to the team member who submitted the nomination to explain, and include the other nominator's name in the #team-member-updates announcement.
Approval flow
Any GitLab team-member
Manager Process
Approval Process:
At 10:00 UTC on Thursday of every week, PeopleOps Bot
slack bot will send a shout out on the #team-member-updates
channel congratulating all team members who celebrates a hire date anniversary that week.
Visit our GitLab Anniversary Gift section for more information about the gifts.
Chances are that if you work at GitLab, you have great friends and peers who would be fantastic additions to our Team and who may be interested in joining our team. To help us grow with exceptional people, we have Referral Bonuses that work as follows:
We encourage and support diversity and frugality on our team and in our hiring practices, so we will offer the following referral bonuses once the new team member has been with the company for 3 months. We will award the highest cumulative dollar amount as outlined below:
The following is an example of a cumulative Referral Bonus:
The following is an example of a cumulative Referral Bonus with the temporary referral add-on campaign for NQR hires:
An underrepresented group describes a subset of a population that holds a smaller percentage within a significant subgroup than the subset holds in the general population. The accepted definition of “underrepresented minorities” from the National Science Foundation and other major research institutions focuses on racial and ethnic groups whose representation in a profession is significantly below their representation in the general population. While any non-majority group in the workplace is a “minority”, they are not considered to be “underrepresented” unless they meet this definition.
We offer an add-on referral bonus for the following groups:
For information regarding the program details and team member eligibility and understanding, please visit our guide in the Hiring section of GitLab's handbook.
If a team member has been referred, the People Experience team will review team members' self-identification data in BambooHR including Gender, Ethnicity and Veteran status to determine if the team member qualifies as belonging to a select underrepresented group. The People Experience team will edit the referrer's referral bonus as applicable. The Total Rewards Analysts will confirm the bonus amount when it is entered into BambooHR and will process the bonus.
In the event that more than one GitLab employee refers the same team member for the same role the People Ops team will ask the new team member to confirm who they were referred by (who should get the credit). If they mention two or more people then the bonus will be split between them.
In the event that someone wants to refer another candidate to GitLab before they have started the referring party must have a sign contract at the time of the new candidate's application.
As we continue to prioritize the health and safety of our team members, GitLab is temporarily suspending the Visiting Grant program until further notice. We continue to monitor the situation and will update this information and the travel policy accordingly.
This means that at this time we ask team members to refrain from booking travel that would normally be covered under the visiting grant. This includes local events and co-working days that don't require long-distance travel. In the event you had previously planned a visit, please cancel it and attempt to maximize any credits for future travel or refunds that you may be eligible for.
For those team members who have already completed visits, please expense your visit per the instructions below.
GitLab is an all-remote company with GitLab team-members all over the world (see the map on our Team page. If you want to visit other team members to get to know them, GitLab will assist with travel expenses (flights, trains, and ground transportation to and from airport) for a total of up to $150 for every team member that you visit and work with. Please note lodging is excluded. To be clearer, if you meet 2 GitLab team members during your visit, the maximum limit of your visiting grant could be $150x2. You don't need to work on the same project or team, either, so long as you discuss work for at least part of the time you're meeting. Before booking any travel using the travel grant budget please discuss your proposed travel with your manager. We encourage team members to utilize the travel grant, however in some cases - for example, a team member has performance issues related to their role - the visiting grant would not be applicable.
Note that meals and local travel while visiting are not typically covered for anyone as that wouldn't really be fair to those being visited. It may be acceptable to cover a meal, however, if the meeting is pre-announced to other people in the region to encourage as many of them to attend as possible and there are four or more GitLab team-members attending.
There are many regular meet-ups of GitLab team-members in many cities. We have a shared calendar to view the schedule. Subscribe to it, make use of the visiting grant, and join meet-ups near you (or far away!).
Douwe and Robert took advantage of the visiting grant when they traveled to 49 different colleagues in 20 cities, in 14 countries, on five continents, in 6 months. Inspired by them, Dimitrie went on a similar journey and provided a great template. Also, check out tips on working remotely while abroad.
To claim the grant, include a line item on your expense report or invoice along with the receipt of your flights, trains, and/or transportation to and from the airport with a list of the team members you visited. The expense report may be submitted during the first month of travel or up to 3 months after your trip has concluded. That said, if it's more frugal to book and expense your travel further in advance, please do so.
As we continue to prioritize the health and safety of our team members, GitLab is temporarily suspending the Significant Life Event Grant program until further notice. We continue to monitor the situation and will update this information and the travel policy accordingly.
Recognizing that GitLab Team Members may wish to share significant events in each other's lives, such as weddings or civil partnerships, GitLab will assist with travel expenses to attend these events. This grant works the same way as the Visiting Grant, except the reimbursement limit is $300 per team member you visit at an event.
If you're a GitLab team member who has traveled and utilized GitLab's Visiting Grant or are planning to do so soon, consider sharing your story! You can submit your experience using the GitLab Visiting Grant Story Submission Form. If you've made use of the Significant Life Event Grant, please check with the team member who invited you to their event if they are comfortable with you sharing their story first.
These stories are useful in showing the world how we stay connected as a geographically diverse team. This is important as we recruit the world's best talent to join us, as well as encouraging colleagues to take a leap, explore a new culture, and visit a team member in a new locale. They may be shared on GitLab's social media platforms, on hiring portals such as Glassdoor, or on the GitLab blog.
Each quarter, 3 GitLab team members who submit Visiting Grant stories will be randomly selected for a $50 voucher for the GitLab Swag Shop!
Every GitLab team member can request the Gold tier for GitLab.com. In case a team member has separate private and work accounts on GitLab.com, they can request it for both. This incentive does not apply to groups owned by GitLab team members (Group-level Gold features such as epics will not be available for Gold GitLab team-member personal accounts, for instance).
In order to request this benefit please submit this form. Your account(s) will be upgraded to the Gold tier within 30 minutes of submission.