Datadog

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Paris, France

August 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was first contacted by HR. We had a first call, then I had an interview with a software engineer. During this interview, I had a live coding assessment. There were two tasks, and I needed to explain my approach for each.

The interviewer was a bit cold, and she just wanted me to finish ASAP.

Questions

What did you do in your last role?

What technology are you using?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 29 interview experiences for the Datadog Software Engineer role in Paris, France.

Success Rate

24%

Pass Rate

Datadog's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Paris, France is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive59%

Neutral31%

Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Datadog's Software Engineer interview process in Paris, France.

Datadog Interview Questions

Coin Change

Medium

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.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Most Common Word

Easy

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.

ArraysStrings

Maximum Depth of N-ary Tree

Easy

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.

TreesRecursion