Diversity at Sourcegraph

The Diversity score provides insights into how diverse employees feel and rate their work experience at Sourcegraph across various culture dimensions.

Diversity and Inclusion at Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph’s first steps towards creating a diverse team came with the decision to work remotely, and engage the right talent regardless of the country, city and timezone they were located in. Besides allowing us access to talent across the globe, this decision enabled us to engage talent who are otherwise unable or unwilling to spend each day in an office, such as talent who take care of dependents at home, may not have access to transport, or have physical restrictions that make commuting difficult.

We also offer compensation that is independent of location. We make sure our talent was supported in working remotely—including offering home desk set-up, coworking space, and internet benefits. And we work asynchronously as much as reasonable to ensure our teammates across time zones and working schedules are included in conversations and calls for input.

We make candidates feel welcome and have equal access to opportunity by reducing bias and discrimination from our hiring processes and interactions.

Specifically, we…

- Have standardized, benchmarked compensation criteria related to each role

- Screen for our “Be welcoming and inclusive” value throughout the hiring process, with questions asked by recruiters, hiring managers, and teammates: such as asking what candidates have done to ensure their co-workers feel a sense of belonging, how they’ve advocated for someone else, how they’ve contributed to building cultures of inclusivity in their previous workplaces.

- Train managers and teammates on how to identify and reduce their own unconscious bias while interviewing and leverage Brighthire to ensure interviews are standardized, consistent and free from bias.

- Have guidelines around paid time off that are inclusive of multiple reasons for PTO: including wellbeing PTO, religious PTO, and life PTO.

- Ask all teammates to participate in anonymous surveys around what could be improved in our culture and ways of working, allowing all teammates to provide feedback on what could enhance our value of being welcoming and inclusive

- Provide access to Modern Health, our independent wellbeing provider, offering 10 counseling and coaching sessions per year for each of our employees, as well as access to a range of diverse support groups (COVID-19, LQBTQ+, Black Lives Matter, Asian communities, Latinx communities)

- Utilize pay transparency and job leveling across teams, aimed at ensuring our managers use skill-based criteria to assess each contributor’s level of impact and ensure that teammates are paid fairly for their level of impact

- Provide detailed guidance and support to our teammates on how they can create their own internal Cohorts and how to surface and escalate insights and ideas that will positively impact Sourcegraph as a whole.