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Hi, all - I have a virtual onsite upcoming with ddog. It’s been a good experience thus far and I’ve made it to an “onsite”. I’m curious about the nature of the onsite coding round - not sure if it’s FB/G style leetcode test or something more directed. I’d appreciate any insight so I can inform my remaining preparation. Thanks! TC 175k YOE 6
It is usually a leetcode Style one but more on the practical side. Something you might have encountered before in real life. If you are good with leetcode medium and basic cs concepts you are good to go.
Much appreciated, thank you
@Datadog, how did you feel after the interview? Did you find it easy?
To close the loop on this - I brain farted on the coding question and came up with a crappy solution, was my worst performance in a very long time. That said, it was not intentionally difficult or esoteric, and was derived from an aspect of their web interface. The system design was as expected, design a high volume system for time series. That went pretty well. Behavior stuff was pleasant, everyone I spoke to was wonderful. I didn’t get the job, but they were gracious enough to call and provide feedback on why, and as I expected, the “why” is - my coding session was awful. But to anyone else applying, there were no tricks or gotchas in the process, very fair. And the people were thoughtful and kind.
How did the coding questions look like? I know they ask practical questions, but was it graphs, trees or something like that?
Yep, basic data structures, nothing esoteric!
OP - Do you mind if I DM you, I have some questions about datadog onsite?
How was onsite? Can I dm?
How were your initial rounds?
So there was just one technical round which had a couple of questions with one interviewer over ~1hr, I don’t remember the first question but the second was a non-LC style time series question. Then, there is a take home assignment in which you implement a log monitor. I thought the take home was a very fun challenge.