Datadog History
Datadog was founded in this year
What is 2010
Beginning February 16, this interview format became mandatory for all candidates reaching the F2F stage.
What is AI Coding Interview?
ChatGPT is an example of this type of AI System
What is Large Language Model (LLM)
This doesn’t mean a tiny insect — it means a problem in your code.
What is a bug?
Out of the top twenty AI-native companies, this many are Datadog customers. A) 14 B) 20 C) 11
What is (A), 14?
This is the first company Oli and Alexis worked at together
What is IBM Research
This is the date of the next All Paws.
What is March 5th, 2026?
This type of AI can help summarize resumes or job descriptions automatically
What is generative AI
This doesn’t refer to a mythical creature, it refers to a startup valued at over $1 billion.
What is a Unicorn?
Datadog’s advantage over AI startups comes from its massive scale of this type of operational data.
What is telemetry (or real-time operational data)?
ALQ cites this as the best "antidote to fear and doubt"
What is action?
This system deeply embeds with scheduling tools, ATS' and video conferencing systems to automatically join and record interviews.
What is Brighthire?
This acronym stands for the branch of AI that helps computers understand language
This doesn’t mean weather, it refers to remote servers that store and run applications.
What is the cloud?
As of early 2026, approximately this many customers are using at least one Datadog AI integration.
a) 12,500 b) 8,500 c) 5,500
What is (c) 5,500?
This was Datadog's Second Product after Infrastructure Monitoring.
What is APM? (Application Performance Monitoring)
In 2025 we made this many hires across AI Eng, Applied Science and Research. A) 38 B) 63 C) 21 D) 87
What is (B) 63?
In AI development, this process measures how well a model performs on specific tasks before it is deployed.
What are Evals? (Evaluations)
This isn’t a baked dessert, it’s small pieces of data saved by your web browser.
What is a cookie?
This Datadog time-series foundation model was trained on over one trillion datapoints and is publicly available.
What is Toto?
On this date (month and year) Datadog had its first major security incident.
What is June 2016?
These three short objectives guide how the Technical Recruiting team operates: “We earn trust,” “We play the infinite game,” and this third principle
What is “We think systems, not silos”?
This technique improves factual accuracy by connecting a model to external documents at query time.
What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?
This phrase doesn’t refer to sewing, it means making meaningful impact on results.
What is "move the needle?"
In 2025, Datadog released over this many new features and capabilities. A) 1,000 B) 400 C) 750
What is B) 400?