Datadog·Frontend Engineer

Datadog Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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MadridPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter from Datadog’s New York office who walked me through what they were building, what they were looking for, and how the next steps worked.

After that, I had a technical screening where I first talked for about 10 minutes about a project I had worked on, then solved two coding problems on CoderPad. The first was straightforward, while the second was a bit more challenging, and the interviewer stayed supportive with hints that made it feel collaborative rather than adversarial.

For the next stage, I chose between a take-home frontend project and a live React coding session, and I went with the take-home since I didn’t have as much professional React experience. I was told it would take 4–6 hours, but it ended up taking much

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