Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IsraelPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process ended up being difficult in a very specific way: most of it felt manageable, but the onsite coding round soured the whole thing.

I went into coding and other technical steps, and I remember at least one coding interview being decent and fair. Then I got to the onsite coding exercise, and it didn’t go well at all.

The interviewer seemed uninterested, and they cut into my time for the solution. I wasn’t allowed to finish properly, and the way it was handled made it feel less like an evaluation and more like a premature stop. That experience strongly influenced how the rest of the process played out.

I didn’t receive an offer. The hardest part to get over afterward was that the process felt uneven—fair in some areas,

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