Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

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FrancePosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience with Datadog mostly ended up being about the part after I already passed the main interviews.

I went through a senior engineering interview and then entered team matching, and the wait for the next match turned into the real story. I managed to get through one team-match attempt, but it wasn’t the right fit, and after that I had little to no follow-up opportunities for about a month. One recruiter conversation later cited limited headcount as the reason things stalled.

Even though the earlier rounds were enough for me to get to team matching, the overall process still felt long and heavy once it reached the matching stage. I remember feeling that the number of steps and the length of

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