I’ve been a SWE long enough and now I want to chill for a bit. I have a Dev Advocate on-site coming up. How can I succeed at the interview? What kinds of questions can I expect? Serious answers please, TIA.
Talk a lot about APIs and building them.
I wouldn’t call a dev advocate role as chilling. Lots of travel to start, and pressure to build content and network with thousands of people. To prepare for the interview, I’d start brushing off your public speaking skills. Then show how you can be an advocate for some technology you use and love.
That role sounds like extreme bs
Developer Advocate is a person that speaks about new technology from a company to the world. They interact with users and clients to figure out how the company can help them better by developing their technology. They are the people that help others use and understand the technology created at a company by creating tutorials, exercises, and visiting clients in person. As a developer advocate you need to understand code, tech, and people. It’s my dream position actually but I decided to try another route for now.
What role are you in right now?
None! I resigned to work on my own project - but I was a SWE. I was thinking about applying to Developer Advocate in NYC at Google. The role seemed very interesting but I felt like doing my own thing for a while.
How well regarded is this role? How easy is it to movie into being a SWE? Is it always just public speaking?
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I really don’t mean to be rude but wtf is a dev advocate
At Amazon, this is the SDMs responsibility. Why do you need a separate role just to be an extra person in the chain of bullshit?
It's an evangelist for a company's APIs. Lots of travelling to conferences, giving presentations, walkthroughs, and possibly maintaining part of the open source presence. Helping answer public questions about APIs. Pushing for changes and improvements the public wants from the APIs. Imagine the center of a triangle of sales engineer, SWE, and TPM with a focus on APIs.