This guide draws on 3 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often a take-home task and a phone screen.
These 3 writeups cover software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
unknown. 1 round. Shared by fafle on hn, 2021-11-30
1Take-home assignmentTake-homeTake-home nominally capped at three hours. Rejected for not guarding against unspecified invalid inputs.Covered: Input validation, Practical coding
Role not stated
Not selected
Experienced. 1 round. Shared by windowshopping on hn, 2021-11-30
1Take-home assignmentTake-homeLarge, complex assignment. Rejected without discussion or feedback.
1Screening interviewPhone screenMaking-change exercise in any language. A tail-recursive Scala solution confused the interviewer.Covered: Coin change, Scala, Tail recursion
What Datadog is hiring for now
439 open roles in our index. Advertised pay floors run $101k to $192k (median $135k, from 221 postings that state pay).
This guide draws on 3 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often a take-home task and a phone screen.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.
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