Datadog

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Paris, France

December 1, 2023

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

HR interview with questions on past projects and motivation, followed by a technical interview with programming questions to be completed live in front of the interviewers, similar to LeetCode or HackerRank. You will need to provide the complexity of the written solution.

Questions

Question de programmation sur algorithme glouton

Lecture gauche-droite d'un tableau

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Datadog Software Engineer (Internship) role in Paris, France.

Success Rate

30%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive85%

Neutral10%

Negative5%

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

Datadog Work Experiences

Best internship experience

Software Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Incredible people, awesome office... I miss this place so much. You never feel alone and can always ask for help. Everyone is super supportive and willing to contribute.

Cons: I can't come up with anything.

Best internship experience

Software Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Incredible people, awesome office... I miss this place so much. You never feel alone and can always ask for help. Everyone is super supportive and willing to contribute.

Cons: I can't come up with anything.

Toxic work culture

Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 15, 2025

Pros: Learning to go through badly written spaghetti code.

Cons: Toxic coworkers that will throw you under the bus on any occasion.

Toxic work culture

Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 15, 2025

Pros: Learning to go through badly written spaghetti code.

Cons: Toxic coworkers that will throw you under the bus on any occasion.

Amazing Team, No Cons

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Pros: Great environment and team to work with.

Cons: There are no cons to mention.

Amazing Team, No Cons

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Pros: Great environment and team to work with.

Cons: There are no cons to mention.

Best internship experience

Software Engineering Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Incredible people, awesome office... I miss this place so much. You never feel alone and can always ask for help. Everyone is super supportive and willing to contribute.

Cons: I can't come up with anything.

5.0
Best internship experience
Software Engineering Intern • Former Employee
Paris, France
March 29, 2024
Pros: Incredible people, awesome office... I miss this place so much. You never feel alone and can always ask for help. Everyone is super supportive and willing to contribute.
Cons: I can't come up with anything.

Toxic work culture

Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 15, 2025

Pros: Learning to go through badly written spaghetti code.

Cons: Toxic coworkers that will throw you under the bus on any occasion.

1.0
Toxic work culture
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Paris, France
October 15, 2025
Pros: Learning to go through badly written spaghetti code.
Cons: Toxic coworkers that will throw you under the bus on any occasion.

Amazing Team, No Cons

Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee

Pros: Great environment and team to work with.

Cons: There are no cons to mention.

5.0
Amazing Team, No Cons
Software Engineer(Internship) • Former Employee
Paris, France
July 14, 2023
Pros: Great environment and team to work with.
Cons: There are no cons to mention.

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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