Datadog Software Engineer interview experience

The coding portion leaned on LeetCode-style problems, with the interviewers pushing on how I approached performance and how I reasoned with data structures. Between rounds, I felt like the process was transparent, and I received feedback at each stage rather than being kept in the dark.

The system design interview felt like a real conversation instead of a quiz. We talked through architecture and trade-offs, and I had to explain how components would fit together and how the design would hold up under scale concerns. Then the behavioral/values interview focused on my experience and how I