Decent Company / Slow Paced - Senior Technical Program Manager Datadog Employee Review

4.0
Mar 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent people, reasonable pay and perks and fast growing share price

Cons

Slow paced, enterprise sales cycles. A lot of employees claiming to not like or want any process or bureaucracy, while not realizing how much process and and how many inefficiencies they already have. I left a giant company (think 100k+ employees) to join Datadog (1000 employees) and I experienced more politics and unnecessary process in 1.2 years at Datadog than I did in 5 years at previous company. Additionally, no 401k matching as the billionaire owners don't believe it is something they should offer employees.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for being open in sharing your experience. We continue to grow and scale at a rapid rate, and will continue to make process improvements so that our employees feel they have the guidance and flexibility to be successful in their roles and with our customers. We're sincerely sorry that your overall experience with us at Datadog was anything but remarkable. We appreciate you taking the time to leave this review, as feedback like this helps us to become a better company for our employees every day.

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