Interesting job, nice people, limited growth opportunity
Interesting job, nice people, limited growth opportunity
Very interesting set of problems to work on. Most teams are very nice and easy to talk to, mostly good company culture. Decent compensation. A lot of very talented people to work with.
Only a select few get promotions beyond Senior Software Engineer.
Once you want to get promoted to a Staff Engineer, you're told that for that position you have to work on large multi-team problems. However, you're not given time to do that because you're still a Senior Engineer and have to work on firefighting and regular stuff.
Very disappointing for me.
Rethink the engineering career path. You're getting a lot of frustrated Senior Engineers who have no path forward.
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The whole process was well done and structured. I didn't make it to the end as I was competing with someone who was a better fit. They asked me to re-apply in the future.
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Paris, Île-de-France, FranceNovember 24, 2025The overall interview process is pretty mature and good overall. The recruiter who reached out to me was mixing formal and informal approaches very well (shout out to Babatunde!). They professionally handled the initial call and the aftermath call wh
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ParisNovember 1, 2025Straightforward tech process with DSA and system design questions. Datadog likes to ask questions that have some link to their products. Brush up on logs indexing, for example. System design questions are more general.
Senior Software Engineer
Paris, FranceOctober 9, 2025The whole process was well done and structured. I didn't make it to the end as I was competing with someone who was a better fit. They asked me to re-apply in the future.
