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

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
2.0
Jan 8, 2019

False promises of opportunity

Recommend
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Pros

Great product, smart and driven people

Cons

Recruiters and sales leadership tell tales of newly-minted millionaires, massive deals and uncapped territories. This simply isn't true. If you joined in 2017 or earlier, you had less competition and were able to land good logos and explore many new accounts. The company is hiring dozens of people in every major area, leaving slim pickings to new hires. Worse, there is more pressure on new sales reps even though they don't have existing accounts (the source of most revenue). The pressure on new reps is seemingly higher even compared with reps who have been at Datadog for 2 years and haven't closed much. Managers tell reps one thing and then a completely different thing to their leadership. Expectations are not aligned throughout the organization.

2.0
Feb 23, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-provides nutritious meals on monday, wednesday, and friday -lovely team -solid product -beautiful window views -solid attempt at creating a vibrant work culture with numerous work activities like yoga, in-office get togethers, etc.

Cons

-fully charged office politics -ethereal targets and expectations that don't line up between roles creating a mostly tribal merit system -beyond the murk of their evaluation framework, the actual targets in metabase are seemingly idyllic: expected to resolve 4-5 tickets daily with an average MTTR of 3-5 days, meaning you are juggling around 20-25 tickets daily -bloated frankenstein-like onboarding, KB structure falling apart with botched attempts at making it all more accessible using distractive surface-level solutions that do more harm than good -consequently spirals into underprepared onboarding, leading to misaligned targets tracked meticulously through Metabase -the company's decent attempt at creating a welcoming work culture ends up sabotaged by the aforementioned cons, creating an uneasy and tense atmosphere that is difficult to adjust to -be prepared to be silently let go after the three months of onboarding, with team members asking why you quit; this is how the company has dodged the layoff sensationalization. managemement will evade discussing this with you and instead initially gaslight you into believing any mistakes made in training are expected while later leveraging it against you. Extremely deceptive.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We acknowledge and take note of the concerns you've raised, and we understand the importance of ensuring clarity and alignment across the board. Your insights are greatly appreciated as they will help us in our ongoing efforts to improve (including areas like engagement, training, and evaluation) and provide the best possible experience for our employees.
2.0
May 27, 2019

Sales beware

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food 3 days a week. Health insurance paid for. Great snacks. Great office.

Cons

Miserable and toxic sales floor. About 10% of people hit numbers. The other 90% are lucky to hit 30% of their number.

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