Implementation Engineering

Discussion & Technical Assessment Interview

Objective

You will deploy a Sourcegraph instance following our documentation. This simulates the kind of task you’ll frequently perform in the Implementation Engineering role. If you have questions about this assignment or feel you’re limited in your ability to accomplish it, please reach out!

Instructions:

• Prerequisites: This task will require you to follow instructions from our public docs site to deploy an instance of Sourcegraph. It’s intentionally ambiguous to test your ability to investigate our docs, make a series of decisions around how you’ll deploy the instance, and similarly make decisions around how you'll configure the instance. This requires you to have access to either a laptop capable of running Sourcegraph locally or a cloud environment. If you don’t have either of these, let us know.

• Use this docs page as a starting place. Deploy an instance of Sourcegraph. Several notes during the installation:

  • You’ll need to select which deployment method to use. Note - it is perfectly fine to have a local deployment.
  • Once deployed, you should configure the instance to, at the very least, sync code and have some form of authentication. If you don’t have your own code to sync, you can use https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot.

• Answer the follow-up questions below to highlight your learnings from the assignment. Be prepared to speak both to these questions and the assignment overall during your “Discussion & Technical Assessment” interview.

Follow-Up Questions:

• What issues or challenges did you encounter while standing up your instance of Sourcegraph? How did you work around them?
• What deployment method did you use? Why?
• How does your deployment differ from what you’d expect from an enterprise customer deployment? What additional challenges would you expect a customer to encounter during a deployment?
• Which features did you enable? For features that you did not enable, how would you have gone about doing so?
• What are one or two recommendations you’d make to update the documentation for future users?

Support Engineering (Leadership)

Technical Interview

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Leadership & Team Management with 2 Solutions Engineering team members

You'll meet with two individual contributors on the team to learn about how you build relationships within a team and how you lead, mentor, and develop others.

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Live Panel Demo and Q&A

Goal: Assess presentation skills and technical understanding