Honestly, you could submit and merege request to our handbook to change global sales policy and tag our CEO to review and merge if he agrees :) Admittedly, this is a unique way to run a company. Other companies are limited by only getting ideas from a small group of people that are directors and executives. At GitLab we understand that good ideas can come from anywhere and we embrace that.

I'd estimiate that I am 2x-3x more productive than any job I've had before because of the all-remote culuture. I get to work less and produce more outcomes. Documenting everything and having documentation from others is a major reason for this.

Jenkins: only does CI/CD, needs to be integrated with a suite of other tools.

GitLab: end-to-end DevOps in one application that has native project planning, source code management, CI/CD, artifact repository, configuration management, and observability built-in.

So Jenkins-X Serverless is about the Jenkins service itself running in a serverless paradigm. Or "using Knative to run Jenkins"

GitLab Serverless is a configuration management feature that allows you to build, deploy, and manage your own serverless functions from the same place where your issues, code, artifacts, etc. are. Or "Using GitLab (which uses Knative) to run your functions."

GL Ultimate pricing is $99 /user/mo [2]

[1] https://github.com/pricing/enterprise [2] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#self-managed

Sounds like wherever you were working before was doing it wrong.

I work remote and no one ever expects immediate email or slack. It is because the whole company is remote that this is the case - you can't have this type of expectation when folks are in every time zone across the globe.

Although I love remote, it's not for everyone. There's a lot to be said for perks like gym, dental, etc. It's really nice that you found a good fit!

> Rometty told CNBC that the deal should not be interpreted as part of any plan for her to transition out of her position as CEO at IBM.

> "I'm still young and I'm not going anywhere," she told CNBC.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-de...

> Google is an investor in GitLab

Not true. GV invested in GitLab. GV != Google. (Just do a web search to learn the difference.)

> push heavily for GCP to their customers offering USD 200 free credits

True. It's free credit for our users, of course, we let them know :) Note that this is Google's standard partner credit. All their partners offer this. It's not unique to GitLab.

> Zero marketing mentions regarding integrations with AWS

Not true. Amazon is also a GitLab partner, and We officially support EKS: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/06/eks-gitlab-integration/

> Sometimes it feels like a cheap Google adware.

This may be accurate. I think we got this wrong the 1st time out of the gate. Here's an issue where we improved the look and feel to be less 'adware' and more informative. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48804

> advertised themselves as a cloud agnostic

We are a cloud-agnostic company and we do advertise it. (e.g. even in our launch post for the GCP marketplace we make a point to say "you can install GitLab almost anywhere" https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/18/install-gitlab-one-click...) Although, perhaps not enough. This is good feedback that we need to make this message more front-and-center.

I've logged an issue to track down the process: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44552