1. I has an initial screening call with their Talent Acquisition person via Zoom, all subsequent communication was via email. 2. A week later there was an interview with the hiring manager, which was cordial albeit clinical. 3. The following week I received an email inviting me to an online technical assessment, which consisted of configuring their software, some SQL and shell scripting. It was very easy for anyone that has spent time at a Linux command line. 4. After another week, I was scheduled for a “cultural peer connect interview” with 2 of the presales consultants. I was expecting this to be an informal “getting to know each other” session, but instead, they asked a series of situation/response type questions, including questions that had already been asked in the first interview. The dialogue was awkward and they were simply running through pre-scripted questions rather than engaging in conversation. Despite the session being scheduled for 60 minutes, one of the consultants left after 25 minutes because "he had another meeting". It was quite difficult to understand what life is like at DataDog. Nobody conveyed any distinctly positive sentiment. In both interviews I asked them to describe the relationship between sales and presales, and both times the question was avoided. Very telling. The following week I received an email to say that my application had been unsuccessful but no reasons were given. I asked for a call for feedback and to be fair, the TA person scheduled a call to discuss, but unfortunately then failed to turn up. They didn’t want me, but on reflection, I probably dodged a bullet. The whole process was transactional and quite impersonal. All the interactions were clinical and the interviewers cold and robotic. The overall impression given is that DataDog is a joyless company that dictates what their employees do, say, and think. Go work for them, I'm sure they have great technology, but please leave your personality, ideas and experience at the door.