Sudo Show 7: Our First Interview, GitLab's Greg Myers

This one’s special to me. Episode 7 of the Sudo Show was our first ever on air interview, and we brought on Greg Myers, a support engineer at GitLab, to talk about what it’s actually like working there.

I’m a little biased here because GitLab gave me my start moving from systems administration into solutions architecture, so getting to sit down with someone still in the trenches there was a treat. Greg and I talk about the GitLab handbook, which is this massive publicly available document that basically runs the company, and how he used it to prep for his own interview process. We also get into GitLab’s wild release cadence, something like ninety consecutive monthly releases without a miss, and what that actually takes behind the scenes from a support and engineering perspective.

Brandon jumps in with some great questions about how GitLab handles third party integrations without forcing teams to rip out tools they already love, and we close out the episode with our second productivity corner segment, this time built around remote work tips since GitLab is fully remote. Greg’s bit about separating his “work brain” from his “relaxation brain” with a dedicated workspace stuck with me.

Give episode 7 a listen if you want to hear what it’s like inside a company that puts almost everything out in the open, handbook included.