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It really looks like they took a lot of inspiration from https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search with this. Not a bad thing at all. I hope

It really looks like they took a lot of inspiration from https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search with this. Not a bad thing at all. I hope SourceGraph doesn't get obsoleted by this though, they're great people.

lancemurdock 5y ago
had a pretty awful interview experience there a while back. Can't say I experienced great people
- sqs 5y ago
  Sourcegraph CEO here. I'm really sorry about that. We work really hard on making our interviews good for everyone, including documenting it publicly at https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/talent/interview_process https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/talent/interview_process. Could you please email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com so I could find out what happened?
- gavinray 5y ago
  I've met two of their devs randomly in different Discord servers. Both were great people (Noah, Olaf) and are very active in OSS communities. Perhaps not coincidentally, both worked on Language Server related stuff. Ólafur is responsible for a lot of Scala tooling and some pretty neat original ideas. Sourcegraph also came up with LSIF, which is useful format for building tooling for language servers: https://lsif.dev https://lsif.dev If you want to build this sort of stuff, the work Sourcegraph has done with LSIF + SemanticDB is probably your easiest bet. N=2 isn't great, but there's my experiences if we're tossing them out there.
- mholt 5y ago
  I'm surprised... I absolutely loved my interview with Sourcegraph. I kind of wish every tech company interviewed like they do.
- anandchowdhary 5y ago
  I interviewed for Sourcegraph and it was one of the best. Super transparent process, open source handbook, fun coding tasks -- really nothing to complaint about. Would be curious to know what made you have such a different experience.
sqs 5y ago
Sourcegraph CEO here. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We are very transparent, have a ton of users, and are open-core, so it's easy to get inspiration from us. :) We want way more devs to be using code search since it's so valuable 10x+/day, and if this helps, then we are very happy for that. Devs get to choose the code search tool they use, so the best tool will win (you wouldn't use Bing if your boss made you...likewise, code search isn't like team chat or team docs).
junon 5y ago
I remember seeing this years ago and thought it was a bit subpar but it appears they've made strides since then. I might start using this again.

lancemurdock 5y ago

had a pretty awful interview experience there a while back. Can't say I experienced great people

sqs 5y ago
Sourcegraph CEO here. I'm really sorry about that. We work really hard on making our interviews good for everyone, including documenting it publicly at https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/talent/interview_process https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/talent/interview_process. Could you please email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com so I could find out what happened?
gavinray 5y ago
I've met two of their devs randomly in different Discord servers. Both were great people (Noah, Olaf) and are very active in OSS communities. Perhaps not coincidentally, both worked on Language Server related stuff. Ólafur is responsible for a lot of Scala tooling and some pretty neat original ideas. Sourcegraph also came up with LSIF, which is useful format for building tooling for language servers: https://lsif.dev https://lsif.dev If you want to build this sort of stuff, the work Sourcegraph has done with LSIF + SemanticDB is probably your easiest bet. N=2 isn't great, but there's my experiences if we're tossing them out there.
mholt 5y ago
I'm surprised... I absolutely loved my interview with Sourcegraph. I kind of wish every tech company interviewed like they do.
anandchowdhary 5y ago
I interviewed for Sourcegraph and it was one of the best. Super transparent process, open source handbook, fun coding tasks -- really nothing to complaint about. Would be curious to know what made you have such a different experience.

sqs 5y ago

Sourcegraph CEO here. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We are very transparent, have a ton of users, and are open-core, so it's easy to get inspiration from us. :) We want way more devs to be using code search since it's so valuable 10x+/day, and if this helps, then we are very happy for that. Devs get to choose the code search tool they use, so the best tool will win (you wouldn't use Bing if your boss made you...likewise, code search isn't like team chat or team docs).

junon 5y ago

I remember seeing this years ago and thought it was a bit subpar but it appears they've made strides since then. I might start using this again.