Growth company with culture and execution challenges - Anonymous employee Datadog Employee Review

2.0
Oct 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great office, smart people, good comp and benefits, dominant market position. Work-life balance is very good; many people are in at 10 and gone by 6.

Cons

Acute lack of management and leadership, no career planning, pressure to deliver fast and bad with little focus on quality and sustainability, insular culture (teams keep to themselves) in tech, sales culture is uber bro-ish frat party, events culture is a sorority, you are expected to just figure stuff out with little to no help, very little pairing or cooperative work.

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