Datadog Software Engineering Team Leader interview questions

- Initial screening with someone from human resources. - Code exercises with an engineer. - Shared a couple of open-source projects instead of doing the take-home exercise. - Series of four interviews: another code challenge, a systems design interview, a management interview and a general culture fit interview with a director. - Four informal post-process discussions to fine-tune the team match. The process went quite well, everyone was friendly and genuinely interested in what I had to say. I had many opportunities to ask questions and reverse the interviews. HR systematically gave detailed feedback and kept me in the loop all along. Overall an enjoyable experience and a well run process.

I started with a few orientation interviews to check what were my motivations. Then I had a series of technical interviews, where we went from general technical discussions to deep dives into systems I worked on. I was assigned a home project. Everyone was always super friendly. None of the interviews were done in stressful conditions. All my questions (technical & more general) were answered thoroughly. The overall process is long.