At Airbnb, engineers will often feel this pain first. And so oftentimes, we'll have engineers leap grassroots efforts of different skills to address the frustration that they have with developers for productivity. Even with these grassroots efforts, things like release is often still get to a place where the developer frustration accumulates beyond just paper cuts. This is why companies have to play a lot or merge block string holidays and are strategic about what time they do releases.
In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams work in hypergrowth companies. He shares how Airbnb developed a customer-first mindset internally, what it took to get Airbnb’s leadership invested in that effort, and how he’s approaching DevEx at Notion today.