Datadog Software Engineer reviews

4.2

93% would recommend to a friend

(96 total reviews)
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Olivier Pomel

94% approve of CEO

89% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Datadog with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 96 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Datadog is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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96 reviews
5.0
Jan 28, 2017

Great fun!

Recommend
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Pros

The people are wonderful - smart, engaging, open, and friendly.

Cons

They've grown so fast that they're still figuring out how to handle teams at a large company.

4.0
Aug 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Datadog is a fantastic place to work, where the people are great, the benefits are better, and the management actually cares about you. The unlimited vacation is real and not just a trap to weed out people who take it. Free lunches are fantastic, and the office kitchen is always well-stocked with snacks. The company's growing really fast, and every day you hear about another big name customer. If feels like you're part of something that soon everyone in the industry is going to know about. Imagine how cool it sounds to tell another engineer that you work for Github. That's what Datadog feels like it's going to be one day.

Cons

Several parts of the codebase are currently a mess. Depending on what team you're on, your day to day work might consist of putting out technical fires that have been building up almost since the company was founded and the first lines of code were written. There's very little culture of documentation, and not a lot of urgency to do anything about that. Different teams seem to be split up along lines that may have made sense once but don't anymore, which gets frustrating when suddenly your work is breaking somebody else's. Collaboration across teams is scattered and haphazard.

5.0
Dec 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of smart, fun and down to earth people. Oli and Alexis are awesome! They are hardcore developers themselves, and frequently work with us on solving problems. We get healthy delicious lunches 3 times a week in the office as well as snacks and weekly freshdirect orders. The work environment is great and encouraging. The product itself is awesome, our customers love it and adoption is increasing by the day -- providing us with interesting scalability and product problems to work on.

Cons

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