Avoid - there are better opportunities - Account Executive Datadog Employee Review

1.0
Jun 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great product. If you're on the engineering side, or more technical, I'm sure this product is a dream to work with. The training is actually great in the beginning (first two weeks)

Cons

Like others have said, be weary as this company asks employees to write reviews with the expectation that they will be positive. Hard to know where to start. You will be doing BDR work 90% of the time and then have to also manage a pipeline. You will essentially be doing two jobs - BDR and AE. I have no issues prospecting, but you will be spread very thin. You will only have 100 accounts, you will need to source these yourself, and good luck finding ones that haven't been entirely ripped through or are bad technical fits. The addressable market is now small, and the reps that have been there the longest have great accounts, simply due to tenure (rich get richer idea) Pressure from management is immense. Constantly looking for updates, emailing and slacking in way off hours. Little to no BDR support, this is a big problem, like I said you are your own BDR. If you build your account list, realize it's not great either due to fit, over saturation, etc. You're already behind the ball and may never recover.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for sharing your candid feedback. Employee reviews like this only help us continue to grow better. We are sincerely sorry if you ever felt pressured to leave a positive review as we only ever encourage employees to leave candid reviews that share their true experience about what Datadog life is like, so we can learn what we're doing well and where we have room to improve. We continue to grow rapidly around the world, and operate in a high growth environment because of the speed at which we're scaling globally. And as we scale, we're actively launching manager trainings across the company to help better arm our leaders with the tools to grow successful teams and individuals. 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, and will do all we can to learn from these missteps.

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