Team Lead applicants have rated the interview process at Datadog with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Datadog as a Team Lead according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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The 1.5 month process started with several experience, personality and technical phone interviews and ended with a 4 hour on-site interview. After the on-site, I immediately sent a follow up email thanking the recruiter and the team. I received no response to the thank you email. No sweat, I know they are a busy company.
Following the thank you email, there was a 2 week period of silence from Datadog. No emails, no phone calls. After the first week, I followed up with the recruiter asking if the interviewing team has made a decision. I received no response. I waited another week and sent another follow up email. 30 minutes later, I received a call from a DD recruiter (a different one) letting me know I didn't get the job. The reason they gave for the delay is that they simply forgot to follow up with me.
Having applicants wait 2 weeks after an onsite, only to be declined is unacceptable for any self respecting recruitment team. A hiring team is the face of the organization, and showing such a lack of empathy is not a good look for any company.
The on-site interview consisted of a simple string parsing question, a standard system design question, and 2 behavioral interviews. I was expecting tougher technical questions, especially for a company that operates at their scale. The behavioral questions seemed as though they were picked randomly out of a hat, and did not seem applicable to the position of team lead.