I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Datadog (Paris) in May 2025
Interview
Expect :
- call with sourcer (15min)
- live coding itw (1h)
- debrief with sourcer (15min)
then for the second part
- call with recruiter (15 min)
- live coding itw (1h)
- design itw (1h)
- experience itw (45min)
- values itw (45min)
- debrief with recruiter (15min)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Datadog (Paris) in Nov 2024
Interview
I have applied online. I have received the invitation for intro meeting in 3 days and the Tech Source. She asked for my experience, my previous projects and the tech stack I have worked on. She was very curious to about the product and asked me to explain the flow of the product.
Datadog is very flexible with my 3 month notice period and they have also given me the choice of work locations to choose from.
I have received an invitation for second round (first technical). This interview is with one of the team members and based on leetcode style easy-medium range problems. I was given 1 hour for two problems. I have to explain my algorithm and why I have chosen the specific data structures and the time complexities.
I was not able to manage the second problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the project you have worked on.
Explain your knowledge on data structures.
Explain your algorithm you have implemented to solve the problem.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Datadog (Lisbon, Lisbon District) in Aug 2024
Interview
First interview with HR then moved on to live coding challenge using Coderpad.io, HR said it would be LeetCode type challenge but it was more difficult than that. Next steps would be of three more technical interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
live coding challenge was asked to solve a real life problem of finding matches for a string on another array of strings