Datadog

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - New York, New York

April 23, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First had technical OA, then quick call with recruiter (behavioral questions), then a technical interview with a current engineer at the company (DSA).

Overall, recruiter and engineer were very open and responsive and questions were of fair difficulty (two LeetCode medium).

Questions

Explain what you did at last internship.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Datadog Software Engineer (Internship) role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

71%

Pass Rate

Datadog's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in New York, New York is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Datadog's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in New York, New York.

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