Great Product, Terrible Sales GTM and Culture - Strategic Account Manager Datadog Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Product is world class and best of breed if you can get companies to buy into total platform approach for observability.

Cons

Sales culture is unbearable, around the clock micro-mgmt, BDR metric driven operating model, and completely unrealistic quota expectations for how the GTM is set up. Maybe 10% of sales reps are hitting quota, after the 9 month ramp period is over expect that to be the last commission you receive and if you haven't cracked a whitespace account by then expect mgmt to turn the heat up and make life miserable to force you out. The products are great all together, but if customers want to only purchase or implement one of the main products they struggle to stand out on their own against competition. The billing and pricing model they have in place is designed to entrap customers and get them to have overages on a monthly basis and they then send you to go bill collect every month. Whole separate sales organization internally who handles the largest enterprise customers and make no commission so purely whitespace hunting. Leadership/Founders mantra to sales folks is literally "Dont F*** It Up" as they think the product is so amazing all we can do is screw it up when talking to customers.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People first culture, endless opportunities to grow, learn new things beyond your role’s scope and get promoted

Cons

Compensation on a lower end

1.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stock options and gym reimbursement

Cons

Datadog is a very toxic place especially if you’re in a non-tech role where you are deprioritized and uncared for. Talent acquisition has terrible, selfish leaders who only care about themselves and pushing their teams past their limits. Your colleagues will backstab you again and again to gain preferential treatment. The leaders encourage this type of behavior and get excited and make jokes about it. Additionally,I It is an environment riddled with sexism and racism — is it not 2026? NYC at that? The lack of resources and support compared to engineering is astounding. I would never recommend this place to anyone. Many of the good reviews are fake or are by people who perpetuate the toxic culture. The only good thing is the stock options. Stay far away from this place!

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