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Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS product is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally. Datadogs are solving tough problems, taking smart risks, and celebrating each other's wins. Let’s grow together! read more
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PARTICIPANTS
220
TOTAL
RATINGS
1710

Datadog Company Culture

Datadog Culture

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Choice Employer
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4.5/5

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Datadog CEO

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Olivier Pomel Datadog's CEO
Olivier Pomel
85 /100

Mission, Vision, & Values

Datadog's mission is to provide observability, analytics and insight into companies' infrastructure environment in the cloud age to solve problems for Dev and Ops teams globally.

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Datadog Culture At a Glance

Datadog has 3000 employees. 220 employees at Datadog have reviewed Datadog across various culture dimensions, providing their opinions on items ranging from executive ratings to the pace at work. The latest review was a month ago.

Overall, the 220 Datadog employees give their leadership a grade of A, or Top 10% of similar size companies on Comparably. This includes specific ratings of their executive team, CEO, and manager.

Employees at Datadog are pleased with their total compensation at Datadog, which includes a combination of pay, stock and equity, and benefits.

Overall, employees at Datadog are pleased with their team. 220 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers a B+. The majority believe the meetings at Datadog are effective, and the majority look forward to interacting with their coworkers.

The majority of employees at Datadog believe the environment at Datadog is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Datadog is comfortably fast. About 71% of the employees at Datadog work 8 hours or less, while 1% of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.

Overall, the employees at Datadog are happy, based on their aggregated ratings of future outlook, customer perception, and their excitement going to work.

A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life
Datadog employees generally work 8.5 hrs a day
Work Hours
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Employees at Datadog report the work pace is comfortably fast
Work Pace
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81% of Datadog employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
Coworkers
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Datadog employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
Feedback
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77% of Datadog employees call their work environment positive
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What's the work from home policy like at Datadog?

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  • Flexible, depending on team

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How's the vacation policy at Datadog?

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  • Discretionary PTO

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Does Datadog drug test or do a background check?

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  • Datadog completes a background check after you sign your offer of employment.

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Who did you meet with during your interview? And how long did it take to hear back from Datadog?

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  • Recruiter, SE, director, then VP. Whole process was 6 weeks.

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What questions do they ask during the interview process at Datadog?

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  • Distributed applications, microservices, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, metrics collection and ingestion

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H1B Visa

In 2019, Datadog applied for 23 H1B visas. Of the work permits applied for, 74% were approved, 17% certified-withdrawn, 4% withdrawn, and 4% denied.

An in-depth look at ‘Certified-withdrawn’ H1B applications at Datadog unveil that one approved work permit application was withdrawn before the employee’s start date, and 4 were withdrawn by Datadog after the employee’s start date.

Work Permit Application Outcome

Datadog has a total of 3000 employees

23
Total Applied
  • 74% Granted (17 out of 23)
  • 4% Denied (1 out of 23)
  • 4% Withdrawn Application was withdrawn by the employer before approval/rejection (1 out of 23)
  • 17% Certified-Withdrawn Application was approved but later withdrawn by employer (4 out of 23)

This data was calculated using publicly sourced data from OFLC Performance Data

Gender Score How positively women rate their overall experience at Datadog

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Datadog currently ranks in the Top 30% of similarly sized companies on Comparably

Diversity Score How positively minorities rate their overall experience at Datadog

top 5% Diversity

Datadog currently ranks in the Top 5% of similarly sized companies on Comparably

eNPS

Net Promoter Score tracks your employees' overall score to this question: "On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?"
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eNPS Score
56%Promoters
22%Passives
22%Detractors

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