Pros: Environnement parfait pour progresser : le niveau des ingénieurs est très élevé, et le produit en pointe. Management compétent, beaucoup plus que ce que j'ai vu ailleurs. Des bureaux au top : pas de flex office, chaises Herman Miller, snack, boisson et repas offerts, situation géographique exceptionnelle. * Salaire élevé, * Actions gratuites, * Beaucoup d'autres avantages. Politique de voyage et de remboursement plutôt arrangeante. Travail sur Mac par défaut. Très bonne ambiance.

Cons: Des horaires légèrement décalés pour travailler avec New York. Peu d'aménagements pour les parents : uniquement 3 jours enfant malade, pas de possibilité de temps partiel.

Pros: Good pay, nice benefits, a nice, beautiful office, interesting problems to work on, and a successful company. If you manage to keep your head down, you can probably coast pretty easily here.

Cons: Code quality is quite low. Many, if not most, systems at Datadog were built by one-man "teams" of engineers, often as hack-day side-projects, rapidly launched to production well before they were ready. Applications are almost never built in a "normal" way, and there are whole applications without a single test. As a consequence, systems break frequently, and no one even knows how they're supposed to work. As a competent developer, you'll probably notice this in your first two weeks, but you'll also soon discover that there are many sacred cows at Datadog. Despite their obvious deficiencies, the design of these systems is largely non-negotiable. Most of your work will consist of a constant barrage of surprisingly crude DevOps changes just to keep the thing running. For many teams, most work is unplanned and very stressful because it's done in response to outages (we have 3 or 4 outages every day, so half your day will be spent working on "urgent" problems). Backend engineers also participate in the on-call rotation, which ends up being once every 4-6 weeks and lasts for a week at a time. You will be responsible for 90% of the systems, even though you know nothing about them. Because everything is mostly broken, you will be paged every hour. Also, you will get to experience the joys of working with an international team, where because almost every change at Datadog results in an outage, the developers in France will consistently wake you up at 4 AM every morning. The company has grown rapidly, but management has not kept pace. Team leads have no experience in leadership, do no planning, and make irrational, heavy-handed decisions. Concerns are not taken seriously, and you'll be treated like a junior engineer regardless of your prior experience.

Pros: Engineers are treated like a high caste within the company. Unlimited PTO. Travel to Paris at least once a year typically.

Cons: If your manager thinks you are underperforming, be wary. People are asked to leave without sympathy if you cannot pull your weight. If you can understand how "impact" is measured here, then you can make it through the obscure language used for performance reviews and promotions.