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      4.0

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (1,618 total reviews)
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      Olivier Pomel

      91% approve of CEO

      78% positive business outlook

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      Datadog has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,618 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
      Sep 8, 2021

      Irish division = racist, micromanaging, slave labour

      Sales development representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Product is great and very competitive in busy market.

      Cons

      Be prepared to say goodbye to your home life. To manage the metrics daily expected of you, you will have to work minimum 14 hours a day. I have never seen such a poorly managed and poorly run business in my life. This explains the huge churn in staff. I used to work in a call centre with diallers and not even that was half as bad as this. You are micromanaged to a point I have never seen before. There is a minimum of 3 team meetings per day which make no sense. You have to call out your predicted forecasts on calls with the entire sales division? Its absolutely comical. So they can praise the 3 people that over perform and then punish the entire region that aren't. Racist comments were made everyday. Please be aware. The team is full of gossips. They pay the worst salaries in the industry, but expect the most. You get around 70 accounts (in total) in a minuscule region and expected to hit your number. Half of these accounts are duplicates and in the wrong country. Overall really dissatisfied in this horror show.

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      Datadog Response
      4y
      We appreciate your candor in leaving this review, and are sincerely sorry that this was your experience with Datadog. Our People Business Partners are activetly digging into the issues you've brought to our attention here through listening tours we're conducting across the Sales team, and we encourage all employees to come to their PBPs with any internal problems they face so we can work to solve them together as we continue to scale rapidly and experience growing pains along the way. We also have all folks across the organisation attending Behaviours of Inclusion and Actions of Inclusion training to be informed to build and maintain an inclusive environment surrounding DEI. We will not tolerate any slander or gossip within the organisation and will do all we can to mitigate this in the future through better trainings for managers and employees around leadership, allyship, and professional development. Thank you for your transparency and know that we will actively be working to learn from these missteps in creating the best culture we can for our employees.
      3.0
      May 16, 2023

      Good product and training but poor leadership

      Account executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product/market fit. Good training and onboarding programs. Some of the best training you can find in SaaS sales.

      Cons

      1. Poor leadership - Middle managers are inexperienced. They were great ICs that were promoted but poor leadership capabilities. They don't set you up for success and tend to micro manage which has resulted in alarmingly high attrition rates. 2. Too many AEs that is resulting in account saturation and under performance. Almost impossible to meet quota as average deal size is small and long sales cycles. In APAC, only 10-12% met quota out a of a team of 30 AEs. Mind boggling. 3. Commissions are capped. No incentive to close bigger (>USD20K MRR) deals.

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      Datadog Response
      3y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback. We're happy that you've had a positive experience with our training and onboarding programs. However, we're disappointed to hear about the concerns that you've raised as well. We strongly encourage you to speak with your People Business Partner in more depth regarding these concerns so that we may address them. Your feedback is valuable and we appreciate you sharing it with us.
      1.0
      Oct 12, 2021

      Toxic Leadership Trickles Down

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Team members were great people Good benefits

      Cons

      Bullying and toxic leaders and management seemed common and seemed to trickle down from the top No work life balance Common to see people logging on during PTO because of pressures of the job Humiliation tactics used in meetings

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      Datadog Response
      4y
      Thank you for your candor in sharing this feedback with us, and we apologize that your experience at Datadog has been anything but positive. Our hope is that all Datadogs will utilize our various feedback mechanisms to ensure that they’re providing us with input on their day-to-day experiences so we can look into any concerns and put in place any necessary improvements. We strive for a culture of continuous improvement and learning so we continue to add leadership trainings across the company to equip our leaders with the tools to grow successful teams and individuals. Creating an amazing employee experience is a top priority for us and we appreciate your feedback as an input into that important goal.
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