Assess cost awareness, ownership, and technical debt trade-offs across your engineering team. Quick 8-10 min survey template for software teams and managers.
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This professionally designed survey template helps you gather valuable insights with intelligent question flow and automated analysis.
Sample Survey Items
Q1
Multiple Choice
Which role best describes you?
Individual contributor / Engineer
Tech lead / Staff+
Engineering manager / Director
Other
Q2
Multiple Choice
What type of team are you currently part of?
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Platform/Infrastructure
SRE/DevOps
Data/ML
QA/Testing
Full‑stack
Cross‑functional product team
Other
Q3
Multiple Choice
Do you have access to cost or usage data relevant to your work (e.g., cloud spend, build minutes)?
Yes, directly
Yes, via someone else
No
Not sure
Q4
Opinion Scale
How often do you personally review cost or usage data?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: NeverMid: MonthlyMax: Daily
Q5
Rating
How confident are you in interpreting cost signals to guide engineering decisions?
Scale: 11 (star)
Min: Not confidentMax: Very confident
Q6
Multiple Choice
Which sources of cost or usage signals do you use today? Select all that apply.
Cloud provider billing (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
FinOps dashboards or reports
Budgets/alerts and anomaly notifications
Build/CI minutes or compute usage
Product usage analytics tied to cost
Third‑party SaaS invoices
Internal chargeback/showback
None of the above
Other
Q7
Multiple Choice
What makes cost data hard to access or act on in your context? Select all that apply.
Data not available for my scope
Hard to find or scattered
Not trusted or inconsistent
Too granular to be actionable
Too high‑level to inform decisions
Limited time or competing priorities
Tooling gaps or permissions
Organization does not prioritize it
Not relevant to my current work
No clear owner to ask
None of the above
Other
Q8
Opinion Scale
In the past quarter, how clear was ownership for cost‑impacting decisions on your team?
Range: 1 – 10
Min: Not clearMid: Somewhat clearMax: Very clear
Q9
Multiple Choice
Who is primarily accountable for engineering decisions with material cost impact?
Individual engineers
Tech leads
Engineering managers
Product managers
Shared responsibility
No clear owner
Other
Q10
Long Text
Briefly describe a recent trade‑off (within the last 3 months) where cost influenced scope, speed, or quality. What drove the decision?
Max 600 chars
Q11
Matrix
When making trade‑offs, how much weight do you personally give to each dimension?
Rows
Very low
Low
Moderate
High
Very high
Lead time / Delivery speed
•
•
•
•
•
Reliability / Uptime
•
•
•
•
•
Cloud and infrastructure cost
•
•
•
•
•
Team workload / Sustainability
•
•
•
•
•
User impact / Satisfaction
•
•
•
•
•
Security and compliance
•
•
•
•
•
Q12
Constant Sum
Allocate 100 points across the dimensions below to reflect your ideal balance when prioritizing work.
Total must equal 100
Min per option: 0Whole numbers only
Q13
Opinion Scale
In the past quarter, decisions involving cost were made quickly enough for our needs.
What’s one change that would make trade‑off decisions easier on your team?
Max 100 chars
Q18
Multiple Choice
How many years of professional software experience do you have?
0–2
3–5
6–10
11–15
16+
Prefer not to say
Q19
Multiple Choice
Approximately how large is your organization?
1–10
11–50
51–200
201–1,000
1,001–5,000
5,001–10,000
10,001+
Prefer not to say
Q20
Multiple Choice
What is your primary industry?
Software / SaaS
Finance / Fintech
E‑commerce / Retail
Media / Entertainment
Gaming
Healthcare / Life sciences
Education
Government / Nonprofit
Other
Prefer not to say
Q21
Multiple Choice
What is your primary computing environment?
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Multiple clouds
On‑premises / Private cloud
Not applicable
Other
Q22
Multiple Choice
Where are you primarily located?
Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
Middle East
North America
Oceania
Prefer not to say
Q23
Long Text
Is there anything else you’d like to share about engineering costs or trade‑offs?
Max 600 chars
Q24
AI Interview
AI Interview: 2 Follow-up Questions on your responses
AI InterviewLength: 2Personality: [Object Object]Mode: Fast
Q25
Chat Message
Thank you for completing the survey—your input will help improve cost‑aware engineering practices.
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