Developer Experience and Platform Strategy Questions

Covers designing and executing strategies that make developer facing products and platforms easy to discover, learn, and adopt. Topics include developer onboarding and time to first successful call, adoption and retention metrics, developer satisfaction indicators, documentation quality, sample code and SDK ergonomics, API design trade offs and versioning, authentication and error handling, self service developer portals, community and support models, pricing and commercial considerations that affect adoption, and prioritization of developer experience work against feature development. Also includes internal platform design considerations such as abstraction of complexity, self service capabilities, safety guardrails, governance and compliance trade offs, feedback loops, and how improving developer experience drives business and platform outcomes. Candidates should be prepared to discuss concrete case studies, measurement approaches, experiments to reduce friction, and how design decisions balance simplicity, comprehensiveness, and long term technical debt.