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Weekly engineering pulse survey

A lightweight, repeatable survey that measures team health, focus, and friction every single week. Takes under 90 seconds to fill out and under 10 minutes to process as a lead.

The five questions

  1. 1Focus. What percentage of your week was spent on deep work vs. interruptions?
  2. 2Blockers. What was the single biggest thing that slowed you down?
  3. 3Morale. On a scale of 1–7, how motivated did you feel this week?
  4. 4Tooling. Name one tool or process that would make you 20% faster.
  5. 5Open floor. Anything else you want leadership to know?

Cadence & processing

  • •Send Friday at 14:00 local time. Close responses Sunday at 18:00.
  • •Review anonymized aggregates Monday morning standup.
  • •Track focus and morale as rolling 4-week averages. Investigate any single-week drop greater than 20%.
  • •Keep verbatim responses in a private channel. Never attribute without explicit permission.

Adapted from the Meridian engineering playbook. Pair with the retro template for a complete feedback loop.