Interesting job, nice people, limited growth opportunity - Senior Software Engineer Datadog Employee Review

4.0
May 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Very interesting set of problems to work on. * Most teams are very nice and easy to talk to, mostly good company culture. * Decent compensation. * A lot of very talented people to work with.

Cons

Only a select few get promotions beyond Senior Software Engineer. Once you want to get promoted to a Staff Engineer, you're told that for that position you have to work on large multi-team problems, but you're not given time to do that because you're still a Senior Engineer and have to work on firefighting and regular stuff. Very disappointing for me.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your review. We're happy to know that you enjoy working alongside your team. Enabling our employees to grow and progress within Datadog is a key focus for us, and we encourage you to share these concerns with your manager and People Business Partner so that we can work together to find the right solutions for you and ensure we support your growth.

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