Sourcegraph application questions — all 47, word for word
Sourcegraph hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 47 questions, 43 of them required. 2 of them are required, fixed-choice questions about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
8 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and product. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Sourcegraph has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Sourcegraph titles them, in Remote:
- Agent Engineer [IC4]
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- Product Manager [IC4]
- Regional Sales Director [M4]
- Security Engineer [IC3]
- Senior Product Marketing Manager [IC4]
- Software Engineer - Platform [IC3]
- Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5]
44 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 212 employers measured ask (median: 13), the least standard being “Do you have professional experience shipping production software services and working across multiple parts of a modern application stack, such as backend services, APIs, databases, containers, or frontend applications?”.
The eligibility questions
These are required, and answered from a fixed list rather than in your own words: work authorisation, visa sponsorship or security clearance. Employers often use questions like these to filter applications automatically, but Greenhouse's public data does not say whether Sourcegraph does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Will you need employment visa sponsorship now or in the future to work in your current location? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
| Will you need employment visa sponsorship now or in the future? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Will you need employment visa sponsorship now or in the future to work in your current location? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Will you need employment visa sponsorship now or in the future? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | No |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| How did you hear about this position? | text | Yes |
| What experience do you have that aligns with what we're looking for in this role? | textarea | Yes |
| Describe your hands-on experience with coding agents. What are you opinionated about? Where do they shine, and where do you insist on determinist code or human judgement? | textarea | Yes |
| Have you designed and shipped a multi-step agentic system that included production controls for reliability, observability, latency, and cost? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| If so, please provide details. | textarea | No |
| Do you have professional experience shipping production software services and working across multiple parts of a modern application stack, such as backend services, APIs, databases, containers, or frontend applications? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally built, evaluated, and operated a machine learning model or ML-powered system in a production environment? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| What about this role, and Sourcegraph as a company, aligns with what you’re looking for next? | textarea | Yes |
| What compensation are you targeting? | text | Yes |
| We are an all-remote team distributed across the world. What location (city, country, zip code) will you work from for 51%+ of the time? | text | Yes |
| Gender | text | Yes |
| Race/ethnicity (mark all that apply): | text | Yes |
| Veteran Status | text | Yes |
| What department are you most interested in joining? Data & Analytics, Engineering, Executive Team, Finance & Accounting, General & Administrative, Legal (+8 more) |
select | Yes |
| Current / most recent job title | text | Yes |
| Current / most recent company | text | Yes |
| What experience do you have that makes you a good fit for this position? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you have prior and/or current experience as a software engineer or been acting as one part-time, and have strong opinions on the stages of the SDLC? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you built out processes in a fast-paced team before, weighing stakeholder needs and maintaining velocity? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you worked in B2B with enterprise customers before, ensuring their unique organizational and technical needs are met? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| What about Sourcegraph and this role aligns with what you're looking for? | textarea | Yes |
| Why are you a good fit for our open position? | textarea | Yes |
| Why do you want to work at Sourcegraph? | textarea | Yes |
| Have you directly managed a team of Account Executives focused on net new logo acquisition? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Can you speak to specific pipeline generation cadences or processes you've implemented with your team? | text | No |
| Which best describes the primary buyer you've sold to or led teams selling to? Developer tools / DevOps, Observability / monitoring, Cybersecurity, Hardware / semiconductors, Cloud infrastructure / IaaS, Data / analytics (+4 more) |
select | Yes |
| The target compensation for this role is $180,000 USD base + $180,000 USD variable ($360,000 USD on-target-earnings). Is that aligned with what you're targeting? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| If this does not align with your expectations, please share your compensation expectations below. | text | No |
| Do you have professional experience with Go? Yes, No, but I'm willing to learn! |
select | Yes |
| Do you have professional experience with Elastic stack? Yes, No, but I'm willing to learn! |
select | Yes |
| Have you been part of security on-call rotations? Yes, No, but I'm willing to learn! |
select | Yes |
| Do you have 5+ years in PMM / Dev marketing / technical GTM in B2B? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you owned technical product launches end-to-end? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you supported enterprise sales enablement directly? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have experience marketing to technical audiences, such as developers, platform engineers, security teams, or engineering leaders? Yes, No, but I'm willing to learn! |
select | Yes |
| What about working at Sourcegraph aligns with what you're looking for next? | textarea | Yes |
| GitHub Profile | text | Yes |
| Do you have professional working experience with Kubernetes? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have experience with public clouds (AWS or GCP), and integrating with their APIs? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How do you manage hundreds of VMs in the cloud? | textarea | Yes |
| How many years of professional development experience do you have? 0-1, 2-4, 5-7, 8+ |
select | Yes |
| Have you led the development of end-user product features from initial concept through production launch in close partnership with Product, Design and/or customers? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| If so, briefly describe one example and your specific role. | textarea | No |
| Have you shipped a product or feature specifically built for, consumed by, or integrated with AI agents, such as an MCP server, agent SDK, agentic developer tool, or agent-friendly CLI? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| We are an all-remote team distributed across the world. What location (city, country) will you work from? | text | Yes |
What it's really asking about
Grouped by what each question is for, so you can prepare the answers that repeat across employers.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Role-specific screening | 14 |
| Years of experience | 14 |
| Cover letter | 5 |
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 3 |
| Other | 2 |
| Portfolio and links | 2 |
| Remote or on-site | 2 |
| Salary expectations | 2 |
| Visa sponsorship | 2 |
| How you heard of them | 1 |
What other employers ask
The same question rarely comes out the same way twice. These employers' forms are measured the same way, from their own job boards:
Odeko · Omada Health · Ophelia · Optimal Dynamics · Oshi Health · Outschool
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Sourcegraph's asks for 43 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default. Settle the eligibility questions first — they are the ones with no room to elaborate, so knowing your answer before you start tells you whether the rest of the form is worth your time.