Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

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ParisPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

This one moved fairly quickly once I got going—about a month or two end to end, with the recruiter and interview steps lining up in a clean sequence.

After an initial OA, I went into a 30-minute behavioral conversation, then a deep dive into a project I’d worked on (about 30 minutes) paired with a longer live coding session.

The live coding was the hardest and most important part of the process. I was asked a couple of questions that felt easy to medium, and I noticed the pattern: if I solved both quickly, they would add a third question before the 45 minutes were up. The timing made it feel high-stakes because I couldn’t treat it like an open-ended take-home—I had to keep momentum while still writing solid, readable code.

After that, I

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