Pros
My score reflects that things are going the right direction but that the company still has to land the recent changes before the outlook is more strongly positive. After years of too much churn, trying to shove together AI coding agents and code search into a single business model—to the detriment of both—Sourcegraph and Amp are going their separate ways. This sets up both companies to be in a better place. In particular, Sourcegraph is going to be able to experience higher stability and more innovation in the core product. There are great, passionate people at Sourcegraph. There are many engineers and engineering managers who I would put among the top I have worked with. I also worked with great colleagues across other roles and functions, PM, Design, Sales, account teams, and more. Finally, while not every company needs enterprise scale code search, for those who do, Sourcegraph provides real and concrete value. Getting to work closely with customers to understand and deliver value for them was a great experience.
Cons
The last couple years have been tough. There was a lot of chaos, some from the fast changing technology around AI, but a lot of it self imposed coming directly from senior leadership. This destroyed a lot of trust and also has put Sourcegraph in a much more challenging position: instead of being 3 years into building a high quality, AI-native platform for code understanding and management, we wasted energy on pivot after pivot, often without giving the previous pivot enough time to prove whether or not it would succeed. This has taken its toll on morale, retention, and customer impact.
