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Sourcegraph went dark

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424 points kaycebasques | 3 comments | 20 Aug 24 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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sixhobbits ◴[20 Aug 24 07:46 UTC] No.41297794[source]▶
I used to always point to Sourcegraph as a company that really understood dev culture and what it took to make devs happy, so this slow transition has definitely been painful to watch.

Just yesterday someone asked for an example of a public roadmap for a technical product, so I spent some time looking for Sourcegraph's, only to find out that they've also made most of their docs private. The public handbook was an amazing resource before, now it's been moved to Notion, and most of the interesting bits are links to private Google documents (which they used to do only for financial documents and other stuff that obviously needed to stay private).

Sad!

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iknownthing ◴[20 Aug 24 13:05 UTC] No.41299718[source]▶
I interviewed with them once, they strung me along for about 6 months then ghosted me.
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1. mdaniel ◴[20 Aug 24 16:18 UTC] No.41301399[source]▶
As a counterpoint, they scheduled me within days and I left the office with an offer letter

I'm cognizant that company culture is not one fixed thing, so maybe they're way different when you interacted with them versus when I did, I'm just saying I had the opposite experience so I doubt it's a trend

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2. iknownthing ◴[20 Aug 24 16:54 UTC] No.41301697[source]▶
To be clear, I had many interviews with them over that 6 months (10+ I think).
3. cxr ◴[21 Aug 24 14:12 UTC] No.41310494[source]▶
In what way is that a counterpoint? Are you tacitly suggesting that the other commenter's position is that Sourcegraph doesn't hire anyone? They they string everyone along for months before ghosting?

There's a distinction between ∃ and ∀.