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      Datadog

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      Datadog reviews

      4.0

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (1,602 total reviews)
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      Olivier Pomel

      91% approve of CEO

      77% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Datadog has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,602 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Datadog employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Jun 27, 2024

      Great Product, Terrible Sales GTM and Culture

      Strategic account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Product is world class and best of breed if you can get companies to buy into total platform approach for observability.

      Cons

      Sales culture is unbearable, around the clock micro-mgmt, BDR metric driven operating model, and completely unrealistic quota expectations for how the GTM is set up. Maybe 10% of sales reps are hitting quota, after the 9 month ramp period is over expect that to be the last commission you receive and if you haven't cracked a whitespace account by then expect mgmt to turn the heat up and make life miserable to force you out. The products are great all together, but if customers want to only purchase or implement one of the main products they struggle to stand out on their own against competition. The billing and pricing model they have in place is designed to entrap customers and get them to have overages on a monthly basis and they then send you to go bill collect every month. Whole separate sales organization internally who handles the largest enterprise customers and make no commission so purely whitespace hunting. Leadership/Founders mantra to sales folks is literally "Dont F*** It Up" as they think the product is so amazing all we can do is screw it up when talking to customers.

      1.0
      Oct 23, 2023

      Do not work here

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Customers love the Datadog products, and most of the engineers who I worked with were wonderful.

      Cons

      Its clear that management is not concerned about their people. Mid-level and senior organizational leaders are disconnected from the line workers. There is no effort to find out whats going on or build relationships with workers. Performance goals are opaque and change frequently, and employees are held against unreasonable and unclear productivity metrics. This is a dysfunctional company that does not value their people.

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      Datadog Response
      2y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We appreciate your positive comments about our products and the wonderful engineers you worked with. However, we are sorry to hear about your concerns regarding management and the overall organizational culture. Your comments about a perceived lack of concern for our people and a disconnect between leadership and line workers are important for us to further look into. Building strong relationships and ensuring open communication with all employees are priorities for us. We hear your concerns about opaque performance goals and frequently changing productivity metrics. We understand the importance of providing clear expectations and consistent communication.
      1.0
      Jul 22, 2021

      The worse experience I ever had in my entire Career

      Account executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product, Great product knowledge

      Cons

      Very big favoritism game, very difficult to reach quotas, terrible management, terrible conditions to reach their numbers, the worst decision of my career, I left the company with depression and feeling terrible about myself.

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      Datadog Response
      4y
      Thank you for sharing your candid feedback, and we're sorry that your experience was anything but positive at Datadog as that's not what we strive for within our Sales department. We are actively launching manager trainings across the company to help better arm our leaders with the tools to grow successful teams and individuals, and we believe these trainings will help to teach great leadership practices moving forward. We recognize both the demand and reward of this role as we navigate this hyper-growth environment, and are working to smooth out growing pains in our Sales processes as the demand of our product continues to increase in today's industry. To mitigate some of these challenges, we're actively growing our global Sales org to add support as we scale and seek to help more and more customers. We appreciate you taking the time to leave this review, and will do all we can to continue improving as a company and department every day.
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