All the Datadog folks I met throughout the process seemed genuinely excited about their work and were on the ball with responding to any questions with impressively complete answers. Out of all the technical recruiters I was in touch with (5 of them including a few FAANG), the recruiter at Datadog, Lesley, was by far the easiest to work with. Since company culture was an important value for me, she made sure to arrange a lunch date for me to meet the team, several video calls with Datadog engineers, and reached out to invite me to a local Python meetup hosted by Datadog. Yes, this is a glowing review. The technical components to the interview included, in order: a live coding phone screen, a take-home assignment, and on-site which had one architectural interview and one more live coding exercise.