Datadog Solutions Engineer interview experience

After agreeing on scheduling, I still didn’t get the interview I was expecting and then the recruiter never came back after I followed up. It felt unprofessional, like my candidacy had already moved on without anyone telling me.

Later, I experienced the same theme again: I made it far enough that I was told I’d be moving into the next step, gave my availability, and then heard nothing. I sent follow-up emails to both the recruiter and the hiring manager, and there was just silence. By the time I finally tried to reconcile what was happening, it already felt like the company had emotionally