If you care about diversity then stay away - Sales Representative Datadog Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great perks cool office and events a lot of great people work there besides leaders

Cons

leadership needs some serious training on how to manage their employees favoritism is how you get promotions they do not care at all about diversity just growing the company to keep up with turnover

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for sharing your candid feedback. We strive to create a culture where everyone feels they can succeed and grow, and we're sincerely sorry that wasn't the overall experience you had with us at Datadog. We're actively building internal programming and hosting trainings that educate employees and leaders around allyship and unconscious bias in order to better foster an inclusive culture for all. Feedback like this helps us continue to grow and improve as we seek to become a better and more inclusive company for our employees every day. We appreciate you taking the time to leave this review, and will do all we can to learn from our missteps.

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