Hiring manager screen

Initial screen

Product Manager

Hiring Manager / Resume Deep Dive

• Interviewer(s): A member of the team for which you're interviewing
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Details: A Sourcegraph teammate will ask experience and behavioral based questions about your skills, values, and work history in order to gauge whether they're aligned with the requirements of the role. The goal of the interview is to:
  1. Get an understanding of your technical depth and how you would contribute to and/or collaborate with our engineering team
  2. Take a deep dive into your background from past to present with the goal of uncovering the motivation behind your decision making, strengths, weaknesses, and accomplishments in past roles.
  3. Get a high level understanding of how your views and experiences align with our values.

The interviewer will leave time at the end to answer any questions that you have. This stage is meant to be conversational and informative for both you and us.

Async writing project

• Interviewer(s): NA—this is a take home assignment. A member of our Product team will review your RFC and discuss it with you in the next round of interviews.
• Duration: ~1 hour
• Details: This is a take home writing assignment to see how you communicate and think about product problems asynchronously.

What we want to measure

Will the candidate be successful in our all-remote environment in which the majority of communication happens in written form (Slack messages, GitHub issues, pull request and commit messages).

• Is the candidate able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way?
• Does the RFC communicate the product vision and explain why this is an important problem to solve?
• Does the RFC have clear, effective? That means: short and non-convoluted sentences, simple words instead of jargon when possible, no mixture of past and present tense, etc.
• Does it demonstrate empathy with the reader and anticipate what the reader might not know?
• Does the candidate make tasteful and effective use of AI in their writing? We expect effective writing to not clearly look like a product of AI writing, and have clear signs of being written by a human.