Developer Experience and API Product Thinking
Focuses on designing products and platforms where the primary users are developers or engineering teams. Key areas assessed include developer onboarding, API design and usability, documentation and example code, developer tooling and SDKs, error diagnostics and observability, and developer support workflows. Candidates should be able to reason about how developer experience affects adoption, retention, time to first success, developer productivity, and downstream business metrics. Interview discussions may include making trade offs between API ergonomics and system constraints, designing developer contracts and versioning strategies, measuring developer satisfaction and success, integrating feedback loops from developer users, and aligning developer platform roadmaps with platform reliability and security goals. For platform and infrastructure products explore how to prioritize features for internal versus external developers, how to run research and experiments with small developer populations, and how to craft documentation, samples, and onboarding flows that reduce friction.
