good benefits! bad development process - Software Engineer Datadog Employee Review

2.0
16 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good benefit - some interesting tech

Cons

Team process is not efficient. Lot of waste since there is lot of knowledge silos. Some team evaluate based on PR number by devs. Not a good practice.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback - your impact is valued at Datadog. We strongly encourage you to speak with your manager or People Business Partner on your concerns around team process and structure, so that we can improve and operate in the most efficient and scalable manner for the company.

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