Developer Experience Survey: Docs, Samples & Events

Measures developer satisfaction and outcomes across documentation, code samples, and community events to surface actionable improvement priorities for developer relations and product teams.

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25 questions · ~11 min

Q01

Message

Welcome, and thank you for taking part in this survey about your recent experience with our documentation, code samples, and community events. This should take approximately 11 minutes. Your participation is entirely voluntary and you may stop at any time. There are no right or wrong answers — we are interested in your honest opinions. All responses are confidential and will be reported in aggregate to improve our developer resources.

Q02

Multiple Choice

In the past 30 days, which of the following resources have you used? Select all that apply.

API/SDK documentation
API reference
Tutorials and guides
Quickstart samples
Example apps / SDK samples
Community events or hackathons
Office hours or webinars
Community forum / Discord
None of the above

Q03

Opinion Scale

How easy or difficult was it to find the documentation you needed?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Very difficultMax:Very easy

Q04

Rating Scale

How would you rate the overall quality of the code samples you used?

Range: 1 – 5

Min:Very poorMax:Excellent

Q05

Multiple Choice

Which types of community events have you attended in the past 90 days? Select all that apply.

Hackathon
Webinar
Meetup
Conference workshop
Office hours
Project showcase
I did not attend any events

Q06

Opinion Scale

Overall, how successful were you in achieving your primary goal using our developer resources in the past 30 days?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Not at all successfulMax:Very successful

Q07

Multiple Choice

What is your primary role?

Backend developer
Frontend developer
Full-stack developer
Mobile developer
Data / ML engineer
DevOps / SRE
QA / Testing
Product manager
Student / Hobbyist
Other

Q08

Message

Thank you for your feedback! Your responses will help us prioritize improvements to our developer resources. If you have further thoughts, feel free to reach out to our developer relations team.

Q09

Opinion Scale

How would you rate the accuracy of the documentation you used?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Very inaccurateMax:Very accurate

Q10

Multiple Choice

In your environment, did the sample(s) run successfully?

Yes, ran as-is
Yes, after minor fixes
No
Not applicable — I did not run samples

Q11

Opinion Scale

How much value did you get from the event(s) you attended?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:No value at allMax:Extremely valuable

Q12

Opinion Scale

How likely are you to recommend our developer resources to a colleague?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely

Q13

Multiple Choice

How many years of professional software development experience do you have?

0–1 years
2–4 years
5–9 years
10+ years

Q14

Opinion Scale

How would you rate the clarity of the documentation you used?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear

Q15

Long Text

What would make our code samples more useful for you in the future?

Q16

Ranking

Rank the following aspects of events from most to least valuable to you.

Live coding demos
Q&A with engineers
Hands-on labs
Lightning talks
Networking
Project showcases

Drag to rank

Q17

Multiple Choice

Which single resource contributed most to your progress? Please choose one.

Documentation
Code samples
Community events
Community forum / support
Tooling / SDK quality
Not sure

Q18

Multiple Choice

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

Just me
2–10
11–50
51–200
201–1,000
1,001+

Q19

Opinion Scale

How would you rate the completeness of the documentation you used?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Very incompleteMax:Very complete

Q20

Long Text

What is the single most important change that would improve your developer experience?

Q21

Multiple Choice

Where are you primarily located?

North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Latin America
Middle East
Africa
Prefer not to say

Q22

Opinion Scale

How up to date was the documentation you used?

Scale: 1 – 7

Min:Very outdatedMax:Fully up to date

Q23

AI Interview

Based on your responses, is there anything else you'd like to share about your developer experience — any frustrations, pleasant surprises, or suggestions?

Q24

Multiple Choice

Which programming languages do you primarily use with our products? Select all that apply.

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Java
C# / .NET
Go
Ruby
PHP
C / C++
Kotlin / Swift
Rust
Other

Q25

Multiple Choice

Which documentation topics need more or better coverage? Select all that apply.

Authentication methods
Rate limiting and quotas
Error handling
Language-specific guides
Framework integrations
Migration / upgrade guides
Sample datasets
Other (please specify)

What’s included

AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

Purpose-built for developer relations: dedicated question blocks on documentation (findability, accuracy, clarity, completeness, currency), code sample quality/success rate, and community event value — not a generic product satisfaction shell.
Includes an AI follow-up interview that adapts to each respondent's prior answers to dig into what's really driving their experience, something static form builders can't do.
Combines quantitative signals (opinion scales, ranking of event aspects, recommend-likelihood) with open-text questions on code samples and 'the single most important change,' plus role/experience/org-size segmentation for cross-cutting analysis.
Auto-generated reports turn responses into actionable priorities for docs, samples, and events teams without manual tallying.

QuestionPro

Product Satisfaction Survey Questions + Sample Template

A general-purpose product satisfaction template rather than one built for developer tooling specifically — it can be adapted to cover docs, samples, or events but doesn't ship with that structure out of the box. QuestionPro is a mature survey platform with solid reporting and distribution features. Good starting point for teams wanting a broad satisfaction instrument rather than a DevRel-specific one.

What it does well

Established enterprise survey platform with built-in analytics and dashboarding
Template is ready-to-field and easy to customize for general product feedback
Supports standard question types (ratings, multiple choice) suitable for broad satisfaction tracking

Where it falls short

Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up probing to explore individual responses in depth
No voice AI interview option or guided screen-share tasks for observing real developer workflows
No per-response quality scoring, and the template isn't tailored to docs/code samples/events specifically — it's a generic product satisfaction survey

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Sample questions

In the past 30 days, which of the following resources have you used? Select all that apply.

How easy or difficult was it to find the documentation you needed?

How would you rate the overall quality of the code samples you used?

Which types of community events have you attended in the past 90 days? Select all that apply.

Overall, how successful were you in achieving your primary goal using our developer resources in the past 30 days?

What is your primary role?

Thank you for your feedback! Your responses will help us prioritize improvements to our developer resources. If you have further thoughts, feel free to reach out to our developer relations team.

How would you rate the accuracy of the documentation you used?

In your environment, did the sample(s) run successfully?

How much value did you get from the event(s) you attended?

How likely are you to recommend our developer resources to a colleague?

How many years of professional software development experience do you have?

How would you rate the clarity of the documentation you used?

What would make our code samples more useful for you in the future?

Rank the following aspects of events from most to least valuable to you.

Which single resource contributed most to your progress? Please choose one.

Approximately how many employees are in your organization?

How would you rate the completeness of the documentation you used?

What is the single most important change that would improve your developer experience?

Where are you primarily located?

How up to date was the documentation you used?

Based on your responses, is there anything else you'd like to share about your developer experience — any frustrations, pleasant surprises, or suggestions?

Which programming languages do you primarily use with our products? Select all that apply.

Which documentation topics need more or better coverage? Select all that apply.

What’s included

AI follow-ups

Attention checks

AI-drafted copy

Auto report

How it compares

Why this template

What it does well

Where it falls short

Ready to launch?