Platform Engineer interview practice

Developer experience, golden paths, and internal platforms — proving platform judgment to engineers who’ve felt bad platforms.

Topics this interview probes

Golden paths & paving Developer experience Multi-tenancy Self-service design Platform adoption Build vs buy

Your platform has 30% adoption. Walk me through how you double it without mandating usage.
Design a golden path for a new microservice — what’s in, what’s deliberately out?
When is a platform abstraction worse than no abstraction? Give a real example pattern.

The live interviewer generates fresh, role-tailored questions — and drills down when your answers are vague.