Couple of red flags with Sourcegraph, primarily centered around their hiring strategy being San Francisco based despite 60%+ of their employee base being distributed worldwide (as wide as North America to South Africa and Europe). Shows a lack of conviction in their hiring strategy, and a misunderstanding of how remote work can work. Secondly, they’re all in on their AI features, and hardly talked about their core product. If you’re a believer in Sourcegraph executing well outside of their core competencies then maybe this is compelling? Otherwise it just seemed like a lot of “fluff”. Lastly, the folks I talked to made it clear that there is OK to poor WLB. For a company as late stage as Sourcegraph, the trade off of time and effort to future compensation did not seem worth it. All in all, average to negative interview experience - because of the company characteristics not necessarily the people.

The process is rigorous. They know what they want and they have a clear interview process. Three rounds, with 6 different people. One round about Engineering Management, another one about cross-cultural fit/communication, and one about culture fit. 2 interviews conduct each interview at the same time.