Datadog Backend Engineer interview experience

I had an HR-style conversation where the recruiter acted like a guide, sharing plenty of information about how the interviews would run and what to expect. The process still took time, but it felt organized—roughly around a month depending on schedules.

Then I moved into technical rounds. There was an initial live/structured coding stage that felt like LeetCode-medium in difficulty, and after that I ran into system design and behavioral-style conversations. In my case, the coding didn’t remain purely interview-style: I also saw a HackerRank assessment with LeetCode-like questions, followed