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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1.0
Apr 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits, working around some smart people.

Cons

Racism and discrimination is what I experienced at Datadog. HR will do everything in their power to protect their managers who are guilty of this. They will blame everything on you and gaslight. I was retaliated against for approaching my manager about some inappropriate and discriminatory comments he made in front of the entire team and HR did absolutely nothing but defend him, even after he retaliated.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, though we are sincerely sorry to hear that this was your experience at Datadog. We care about acting ethically and with integrity and take these allegations seriously. Our goal is to promote a workplace that is free of discrimination. Retaliation against a colleague who raises a complaint of discrimination is strictly prohibited, and though you are no longer with Datadog, we do still take what you've shared seriously. We invite you to contact our anonymous third-party provider EthicsPoint at https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/52231/index.html to share any specifics regarding the concerns you've shared so that we can learn more. We want our people to feel comfortable in approaching their leadership and/or their People Business Partner and feel their concerns are heard. Thank you again for sharing and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
1.0
Apr 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The food and tea - A lot of smart engineers on other teams

Cons

As a security analyst I was extremely overworked and under-appreciated. It was not just that I was doing menial work, filling out customer questionnaire after customer questionnaire for example, it was that I was treated as less than other members of the team. Whenever the opportunity arose to be exposed to anything technical, that door was quickly closed with copious condescension. The security engineers that joined after me left as soon as they could too, 3 unhappy exits in a row on the same small team is not a coincidence. All these 'Best Place Ever' reviews seem written by HR. During the first few months people on the team were happy and we had heard that our overall team happiness rate from the employee survey was much higher than the rest of the company, clearly that did not last.

2.0
Jun 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Product is solid - but built for modern infrastructure only. Rating higher than 1 star purely because technology is good and opportunity in areas other than sales may be ok.

Cons

At best incompetent, at worst corrupt and disingenuous sales management. As others have said toxic environment where favorites are played to help a few exceed - but the majority have no chance of making quota.. Engineering driven company and culture - lacks alignment with sales - even Sales Engineers are not part of sales organization (but rather product) Opportunity with Enterprise accounts is limited - but continue to hire and throw more bodies at it as if 5 reps could solve a problem where there was not enough opportunity for 2.

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