Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop had a pretty standard shape once it got rolling: two coding rounds, then a system design round, and then a behavioral/values-style conversation.

I felt like I did well across most of it, but the second coding interview was where things shifted. That round ended up being the one that broke my momentum.

Before the onsite even started, I had an initial technical screen where the format felt like a timed interview on a coding platform, and then it escalated into multiple one-hour onsite interviews. The onsite experience wasn’t just about solving; it also tested how I explained tradeoffs and kept the work moving under time pressure.

After I finished everything late in the day, the update came quickly—once a debrief happened, the decision

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