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What this posting asks for
Level: Manager — The title says "Director".
Main responsibilities
- Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, sea…
- Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration…
- Partner closely with Product and Design to make complex, high-volume data understandable and actionable for users with different needs and technical backgrounds
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Technical skill Core
In the posting: “This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers inte…” · “Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, sea…” · “Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration…”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Customer focus Core
In the posting: “Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product.” · “This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers inte…” · “Influence product and engineering strategy across Datadog by bringing deep expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product …”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product.” · “You will shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new way…” · “This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers inte…”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Data and analysis Core
In the posting: “Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product.” · “You will lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces, partnering …” · “You will shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new way…”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “You will shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new way…” · “Guide the evolution of the systems, frameworks, and interfaces that enable teams across Datadog to build performant, consistent, and high-quality data visual…” · “A strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture …”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Problem solving Core
In the posting: “Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computat…” · “It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.”
Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.” · “Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration…”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Leadership and mentoring Supporting
In the posting: “Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them. - Stakeholder management Supporting
In the posting: “Influence product and engineering strategy across Datadog by bringing deep expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product …”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (7):
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you used data or numbers to make a decision. From this posting
- How have you used training in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to get agreement from people who wanted different things. From this posting
- This posting reads as Data analysis: its questions come first.
- Tell me about an analysis that changed a decision. Data analysis
- Describe a time you found that the data you were given was wrong. Data analysis
- A manager asks you for 'the numbers' by tomorrow with no further detail. What do you do? Data analysis
- How do you check that a query or spreadsheet you built gives the right answer? Data analysis
- What makes a dashboard useful, and how have you built one? Data analysis
- Tell me about a time you explained a statistical result to people without a data background. Data analysis
- Sales dropped 15% last month. How would you find out why? Data analysis
- Describe a new tool or technique you learned to finish a piece of work. Data analysis
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.