Technical interview experience was extremely concerning. Successfully completed their LeetCode technical screen with thorough discussion, testing, and 15 minutes remaining on the call. Later received a rejection email with feedback that I “did not complete” the exercise, and that explanations of the algorithm’s inner workings were considered a waste of time. Company's handling of feedback and clarification requests was unprofessional - avoiding direct answers, requiring management escalation and multiple internal discussions, and ultimately providing no clear explanation. Shows serious issues with their interview process and communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generic pattern matching medium/hard question pasted directly from leetcode.com
Hiring manager interview then reached the Manager interview where they were looking for a specific experience around consuming and processing data, data pipelines, scaling experience around that architecture with the same stack that they use
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Datadog
Interview
My experience with Datadog was outstanding. All the people I interacted with were nice and knowledgeable and they were really patient letting me take the time that I needed to evaluate other offers.
I’ll keep things a bit vague out of respect for Datadog.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Coding: A data structure to efficiently handle a time based stream of data.
