Datadog·Software Engineer

Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process took a few weeks—around three to four—and it felt pretty structured from start to finish.

It began with a recruiter call with the usual background and behavioral questions, then I moved into technical interviews. I had a deeper resume-focused discussion in the middle where we dug into my experience, and the technical portion included multiple live coding rounds with LeetCode-medium level difficulty.

What surprised me was how closely the problems resembled real, day-to-day issues for a monitoring/observability company rather than pure textbook algorithm exercises. Across the coding sessions, we discussed performance, potential bugs, and tradeoffs. I remember thinking that

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