Alex had a personal passion for survey design and psychometrics. It was pretty much the only survey that we sent out to every single engineer. The first couple of years, I think we ran it. We got a pretty good like, I remember 2020 was actually like a little low and we had like 65 or 70% response rate.
Utsav Shah, who leads Platform at Vanta and previously led Developer Effectiveness at Dropbox, shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring developer productivity. Utsav discusses what he learned about both system and survey-based measures, his opinion on the usefulness of common Git metrics, and more.