Datadog

SWE Intern Interview Experience - United States

October 31, 2025

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

2 Rounds for the Entire Process

Behavioral with a recruiter. Very normal introductory call. You'll likely get the technical no matter what.
Technical. Deep resume dive with 3 LeetCode questions. 45 minutes.

Questions

Go through a project in extreme detail.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Datadog SWE Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Datadog's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral33%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Datadog's SWE Intern interview process in United States.

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