Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Datadog (Paris) em nov. de 2020
Entrevista
The interview process consists on several stages:
1. Interview with Talent Acquisition partner to talk about the role, the company, review past and current experiences and motivations.
2. Hiring manager interview to assess management and leadership skills, decision making and communitation.
3. Technical interview - System design. Mainly focus on how to approach a problem and discuss the solution (pros and cons of each decision).
4. Cultural fit & values.
5. Diversity and inclusion.
Due to the pandemic context, relocating to France was not an option, so I decided to withdraw from the interview process.
However, the experience was really positive and everyone understood the decision.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
- Why would you like to join Datadog?
- Why is the motivation to leave your current company?
- What do you understand from this role?
- Why are you a good candidate for it?
- Have you used Datadog in the past?
- If you have all the teams at your disposal, what would you change?
- What kind of manager are you?
- How would your team describe you?
- How often do you provide feedback?
- How do you approach under performance?
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Datadog.
Entrevista
Datadog has a very in depth interview process covering basically everything you would expect (coding, design, delivery management, people management, etc). They provide plenty of documents for preparation and a rough outline of what each interview entails to really give you the best chance of success and it's up to you to make the most of that. I wouldn't say any particular interview is difficult, but it's a lot of interviews covering a lot of topics.
At the conclusion of the process, they provide not just a boilerplate "we had many qualified candidates but unfortunately..." email, but the recruiter will actually hop on a call with you and go through high-level feedback from each individual interview, which set me up very well for future interviews with other companies.
In my case, I didn't make the cut because I didn't go into enough low-level details in the technical interviews. They would rather hire people who have 10/10 knowledge in some areas and 5/10 in other areas than people with 7-8/10 knowledge across the board, so go into their interviews knowing that it's okay to hand wave some details of your designs as long as you can be very detailed in other areas.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Datadog (New York, NY).
Entrevista
I had a call with a Director of Eng. He seemed to be focused on something else and was seemed disinterested in being there. The feedback he gave was that I was too junior for an M1 role.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Tell me about an experience coaching someone on your team
Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Datadog (New York, NY).
Entrevista
Great experience, recruiter was transparent and helpful throughout the whole process. I was not caught off guard at all during the rounds. Final Round was one hour each of:
- coding
- systems design
- overview of a project that I had overseen
- capacity management
- people management
I have a ton of respect for this company, everyone that I spoke with was humble and seemed to really enjoy working there.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
The system design question is very data processing specific, like design a high throughput pipeline etc. Think about scale, fault tolerance, SLAs etc.
