1. Recruiter Phone Screen

2. 30-minute meeting with the hiring manager.

3. Take-home exercise in HackerRank. This requires technical knowledge of Kubernetes, Nginx, etc. They provide a VM in HackerRank to complete the exercise. You are supposed to deploy the Datadog agent and create and deploy some metrics with Python. Their documentation has the steps to follow, but you only have three hours. Additionally, there were questions about REST APIs. It's an open-book exercise, so you can use documentation, AI, or anything to complete it.

4. Panel interview with the hiring team.

I completed the take-home exercise and then the panel interview. After the panel interview, I reached out to the recruiter and recruitment coordinator several times, but they never got back to me with feedback. It would be great if they could provide an update without ghosting.

During this time, I had accepted a better offer, so I withdrew from the process. It's disappointing that after spending hours to complete the take-home exercise, they didn't provide any update after the panel interview.

I don't think anyone who doesn't desperately need a job should apply for Datadog, given that it's one of the few companies that ask candidates to spend time completing a highly technical take-home exercise on their product, only to be ghosted at a later stage.

The panel interview had two team members, but they didn't ask any good questions to understand my skills or experience. Honestly speaking, after the panel interview, I also felt that this was not a good role for me, as the interviewers failed to build interest in the role for me.

Please train your recruiters to get back to candidates with updates, whether positive or negative.

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