Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a coding screen followed by a final loop that mixed coding, system design, behavioral, and tech-experience style interviews.

The early parts were encouraging: recruiters and the coding/system design interviewers were friendly, knowledgeable, and respectful, and the overall tone felt fair.

But my later rounds became harder to enjoy. During the behavioral interview, the interviewer kept interrupting me and eventually pointed to a lack of direct leadership or mentoring experience. The problem was that I wasn’t able to fully explain my examples because the interruptions cut off my ability to address what they were focused on. In the tech-experiences interview, I felt like the interviewer misunderstood my background

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