OWKIN interview question

Who is responsible for defining SLIs?

Interview Answer

Anonymous

Jul 1, 2026

I explained that SRE should partner with development teams to help them define SLIs that reflect user experience, rather than simply handing off the responsibility. In the feedback, the company told me they found ambiguity in my understanding of monitoring ownership, although the question was specifically about SLI responsibility. The expected answer appears to have been that developers alone own SLIs, and any collaborative approach was interpreted as a lack of clarity on boundaries.