Anyscale
Medium (~250)
GitLab
Large (~2,500)
Best For
Anyscale
Best for: Distributed systems and ML infrastructure engineers who want to work on the Ray open-source project and commercial AI infra
GitLab
Best for: Engineers who want a fully remote, async-first culture with radical transparency
Ratings
AnyscaleGitLab
4.2
3.9
Overall
3.8
3.9
Work-Life Balance
4.2
4.0
Culture & Values
4.1
3.8
Comp & Benefits
4.0
3.5
Senior Mgmt
4.0
3.7
Career Opps
👍 84% Recommend
👤 87% CEO Approval (Robert Nishihara)
👍 75% Recommend
👤 70% CEO Approval (Sid Sijbrandij)
Culture Values
Anyscale only
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🤝 Flat Hierarchy🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate
GitLab only
🌐 Remote-Friendly📡 Async-First🪟 Transparent⚖️ Work-Life Balance
Shared
🔓 Open Source
Pros & Cons
Anyscale
- Brilliant colleagues from top companies
- Direct impact on AI/ML ecosystem
- Context switching between projects
- Documentation can lag behind development
GitLab
- Best-in-class all-remote culture — truly async-first with genuine flexibility
- Radically transparent company with a public handbook and open processes
- Revenue organization has seen quota chaos and low morale
- Some leadership instability at the C-suite level
Bottom Line
Anyscale
Choose Anyscale if you want to work on Ray — the dominant compute framework for AI workloads — with strong engineering culture and open-source DNA.
GitLab
Choose GitLab if you want the gold standard of all-remote work with public handbook and async processes — but expect bureaucracy at scale and comp below top-tier.
Open Roles
Anyscale
No open roles currently listed
GitLab — 195 jobs
💻 Engineering
79
💼 Sales / GTM
67
📋 Product
10
⚖️ Legal
5
📊 Data
4
🎨 Design
4
📣 Marketing
4
👤 HR / People
2
⚙️ Operations
2
Summary
Anyscale scores 4.2/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.8 work-life balance rating. GitLab scores 3.9/5.0 overall with a 3.9 WLB. That’s a 0.3-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Open Source. Anyscale also emphasizes Engineering-Driven, Flat Hierarchy, Ship Fast & Iterate. GitLab also emphasizes Remote-Friendly, Async-First, Transparent, Work-Life Balance.
On the hiring front, Anyscale has 0 open roles and GitLab has 195 open roles.