Datadog Technical Solutions Engineer II reviews

-fully charged office politics -ethereal targets and expectations that don't line up between roles creating a mostly tribal merit system -beyond the murk of their evaluation framework, the actual targets in metabase are seemingly idyllic: expected to resolve 4-5 tickets daily with an average MTTR of 3-5 days, meaning you are juggling around 20-25 tickets daily -bloated frankenstein-like onboarding, KB structure falling apart with botched attempts at making it all more accessible using distractive surface-level solutions that do more harm than good -consequently spirals into underprepared onboarding, leading to misaligned targets tracked meticulously through Metabase -the company's decent attempt at creating a welcoming work culture ends up sabotaged by the aforementioned cons, creating an uneasy and tense atmosphere that is difficult to adjust to -be prepared to be silently let go after the three months of onboarding, with team members asking why you quit; this is how the company has dodged the layoff sensationalization. managemement will evade discussing this with you and instead initially gaslight you into believing any mistakes made in training are expected while later leveraging it against you. Extremely deceptive.

Management at certain organizations doesn't quite know what they're doing; the Datadog culture is dying because of senior leadership changes. In stead of promoting tenured people, they hire new people with significant higher salaries and cap the raise ( which is minimal). Salaries for the support role is lower than industry standards too and yet they are very cut-throat about performances and metrics. There's little internal mobility although they promise it. Once you get here it's stuck. With the technical support roles, they don't take measures to set customer experiences despite promising it for a very long time. I'm afraid Datadog has become the typical corporate trap in every single aspect.