Datadog Solutions Engineer interview experience

There was also a presentation round on top of that, so the process wasn’t just quick Q&A—it asked for more sustained effort.

The part that threw me off wasn’t the difficulty so much as how the job requirements were explained. I felt like expectations weren’t laid out in a way that matched the reality of what I was being evaluated on, which made it harder to know what to emphasize.

In the end, I didn’t get past the second stage. Even though the early screening itself was fairly straightforward and the interviewer was polite, the overall experience left me feeling like the process was more