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# About Sourcegraph

- [**about.sourcegraph.com**](https://about.sourcegraph.com) for information about Sourcegraph (the product and the company)
- [Careers](https://boards.greenhouse.io/sourcegraph91)
- [News](https://about.sourcegraph.com/news)
- [**Sourcegraph.com/about**](https://sourcegraph.com/about) for information about Sourcegraph (the product and the company)
- [Sourcegraph handbook](../../index.md)
- [All-remote](../remote/index.md)
- [Asynchronous work](../communication/asynchronous-communication.md)
- [Strategy](../../strategy-goals/strategy/index.md)
- [Team](../../team/index.md)
- [Values](../values/index.md)
- [Being a customer-first company](../values/customer-first.md)

# Sourcegraph: open product, open company, open source

As part of making Sourcegraph open source, we build Sourcegraph with a public ([strategy](../../strategy-goals/strategy/index.md) and [issues](http://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/)). As an **open product**, and **open company**, our [website](https://github.com/sourcegraph/about) and [documentation](https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/tree/main/doc) is now open source which holds product- and company-related docs.

Here's how we define these terms:

## Open product

This means the [product strategy](../../strategy-goals/strategy/index.md) is public and open for input.

You might not realize it, but the products you use every day are not just open source; they are also open products. Products like [Kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date) and [Visual Studio Code](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Iteration-Plans) do all their product planning in the open. They get useful input from the community and make it easy to integrate and rely on their products.

## Open company

This means that principles, strategies, and processes for internal company functions are publicly documented in [our handbook](../../index.md), including for recruiting, marketing, pricing, and sales—not just engineering and product.

Being an open company is important because being an open product isn't enough to gain the trust of developers. You need to do the same for other important parts of the company that affect the product, the open source project, and the users. See [GitLab's pricing strategy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/pricing/) in their public handbook for a great example of this.

Open company doesn't mean that everything is public; only principles, strategies, and processes related to our internal functions. We're proud to be sharing more about how we run Sourcegraph Inc!

## Open source

To learn more about what **open source** means at Sourcegraph, see the [open source FAQs](../community/faq.md) and [license documentation](https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph#license).
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# Company Information and Processes
# Company information and processes

This area of the Handbook is dedicated to information about Sourcegraph, working here, and company-wide processes. Team-specific information can be found in the [department directory](../departments/index.md)
This area of the handbook is dedicated to information about Sourcegraph, working here, and company-wide processes. Department-specific information can be found in the [department directory](../departments/index.md).

## [About Sourcegraph](about-sourcegraph/index.md)

- [General Office Info](about-sourcegraph/general-office-info.md)
- [Equality of opportunity](equality-of-opportunity.md)

## [Sourcegraph Values](values/index.md)

- [Customer-first](values/customer-first.md)

## [Mentorship](mentorship/index.md)

- [Find a mentor, Be a mentor!](mentorship/index.md)
## [Sourcegraph values](values/index.md)

## [Communication](communication/index.md)

- [Announcements](communication/announcements.md)
- [Asynchronous communication](communication/asynchronous-communication.md)
- [Code of conduct](community/code_of_conduct.md)
- [Conflicts](communication/conflicts.md)
- [Content Guidelines](communication/content_guidelines/index.md)
- [Content guidelines](communication/content_guidelines/index.md)
- [Customer ethics](communication/customer_ethics.md)
- [Feedback](communication/seeking-and-giving-feedback.md)
- Meetings
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## [Working at Sourcegraph](working-at-sourcegraph/index.md)

- [Mentorship](mentorship/index.md)
- [PTO](../benefits-pay-perks/benefits-perks/time-off/index.md)
- [Switching teams](working-at-sourcegraph/switching-teams.md)
- [Impact reviews](../departments/people-talent/people-ops/process/teammate-sentiment/impact-reviews/index.md)
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- Sourcegraph public Source code
- Public RFCs
- Personal data that teammates share publicly (such as in public Handbook team pages).
- Personal data that teammates share publicly (such as in public handbook team pages).
- We default to public unless information belongs to one of the above categories

## **Labeling**
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### Share that you're doing a hackathon!

Hackathons encompass many of the Sourcegraph values – high agency, working as a team, being customer-first, continuous learning – and you should share that you're doing a hackathon with the whole company! (Plus, if you share it, then you're adding "communicating openly and transparently"!)
Hackathons encompass many of the Sourcegraph values and you should share that you're doing a hackathon with the whole company! (Plus, if you share it, then you're adding "communicating directly and transparently"!)

People will be excited to follow along, attend the demo presentations, or contribute excitement/ideas/questions to any idea pre-planning docs.

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- **High agency:** If all Sourcegraph teammates, except for one, got stranded on a desert island without internet access for a month, we know that person would figure out how to keep Sourcegraph running and serving our customers. We are self-motivated. Everyone here has a high degree of autonomy and freedom, which requires hard work, responsibility, initiative, fast iteration, and optimism in the face of challenges. We think and act like owners of our work and hold each other accountable to do the same so we can do the best work of our lives.
- **Win together:** Each of us is an owner here in two ways: of our work and of the company (as team members and shareholders). We all win only if the entire company wins, which calls for the right balance of collaboration and ownership. Too little collaboration causes chaos and brings disappointing results. Too much collaboration crushes ownership and dulls outcomes. As owners of the company, we speak up when something is wrong (even when it’s hard) and help create an environment where we respectfully consider every voice.
- **Direct & transparent:** We communicate directly and operate transparently (internally) by default, which helps us move fast and make good decisions. We proactively give and receive candid feedback out of respect for each other. We respond positively to directness and transparency because the alternative is worse: not hearing feedback, waiting longer to hear the same information, or having less valuable input into a decision. We are willing to disagree and commit.

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- [Comms career development framework](../../departments/marketing/career-development/comms-framework.md)
- [Product Marketing career development framework](../../departments/marketing/career-development/product-marketing-framework.md)
- [Customer Marketing career development framework](../../departments/marketing/career-development/customer-marketing-framework.md)

## Operations

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> I own X because my goal is to solve problem X for customers and I'll do everything I can as an engineer to make that happen.
And yes, that comes with _responsibility_ -- with high agency and a customer-first attitude comes high responsibility. Everything else flows from that:
And yes, that comes with _responsibility_ -- with high agency and dev-love comes high responsibility. Everything else flows from that:

- It's up to _you_ to make sure your work meets engineering standards.
- It's up to _you_ to make sure it doesn't blow up in production.
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