This resource is useful for everyone in engineering at Sourcegraph.

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Our aspiration

The following is an idealized archetype of a successful engineer at Sourcegraph. Its purpose is to give you something to strive towards—regardless of your current level.

The most successful engineers check a lot of the boxes most of the time. Nobody checks all boxes all the time and how exactly these items play out may vary by level.

As a successful engineer at Sourcegraph you…

  1. Show agency and intuition/taste

    Related: Impact, agency, and taste

  2. Are a great programmer

  3. Continuously improve things

  4. Unblock yourself

  5. Get better on your own

  6. Ship value to customers; you don’t write code for code’s sake

  7. Communicate effectively

  8. Share you work regularly

  9. Have a sense of urgency

  10. Are not a solo player

  11. Care about the whole software lifecycle

Related: Our values