Datadog

Software Developer Interview Experience

December 18, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Coding interview:

Coding, behavior, and system design interviews. One coding interview was decent and fair. The onsite coding interview was awful. The interviewer didn't seem to care. He cut the time for the exercise and didn't let me finish the solution properly.

Questions

You have words ["q: bob", "q: friend cd", "l be"]. You have to output for each l: the queries that the words existed.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Datadog Software Developer role.

Success Rate

13%

Pass Rate

Datadog's interview process for their Software Developer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive25%

Neutral50%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Datadog's Software Developer interview process.

Datadog Work Experiences

Salary

Software Developer • Former Employee

January 10, 2025

Pros: Very good mood and work environment.

Cons: Workload too heavy

Software Developer • Former Employee

January 10, 2025

Pros: Very good mood and work environment.

Cons: Workload too heavy

Good Balance, But No Knowledge Transfer

Software Developer • Former Employee

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pros: Work-life balance, growth, career-wise, great.

Cons: No knowledge transfer, no office tours.

Good Balance, But No Knowledge Transfer

Software Developer • Former Employee

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pros: Work-life balance, growth, career-wise, great.

Cons: No knowledge transfer, no office tours.

NA

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: A good place to work.

Cons: Nothing to mention on this.

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: A good place to work.

Cons: Nothing to mention on this.

Salary

Software Developer • Former Employee

January 10, 2025

Pros: Very good mood and work environment.

Cons: Workload too heavy

4.0
Salary
Software Developer • Former Employee
Paris, France
January 10, 2025
Pros: Very good mood and work environment.
Cons: Workload too heavy

Good Balance, But No Knowledge Transfer

Software Developer • Former Employee

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pros: Work-life balance, growth, career-wise, great.

Cons: No knowledge transfer, no office tours.

3.0
Good Balance, But No Knowledge Transfer
Software Developer • Former Employee
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
April 6, 2021
Pros: Work-life balance, growth, career-wise, great.
Cons: No knowledge transfer, no office tours.

NA

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: A good place to work.

Cons: Nothing to mention on this.

5.0
NA
Software Developer • Former Employee
July 28, 2022
Pros: A good place to work.
Cons: Nothing to mention on this.

Datadog Interview Questions

Coin Change

Given a set of coin denominations and a target amount, find the minimum number of coins needed to reach that amount. You can assume you have an unlimited supply of each coin type.

Dynamic Programming

Most Common Word

Find the most frequent word in a given paragraph, excluding a list of banned words. Return the most common word after performing case-insensitive comparison and removing punctuation.

Maximum Depth of N-ary Tree

Find the maximum depth (number of nodes along the longest path from the root) of an N-ary tree. Each node can have multiple children.

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