Great resources and culture. awful Work/life balance - Commercial Account Executive Datadog Employee Review

3.0
26 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Culture is amazing. company resources are amazing. You really are apart of a community.

Cons

you have to sell your soul to the little purple dog to hit their ridiculous KPIs. Constant stress. It never stops. They claim to care about your mental health and well being, but they do not actually. They care about that stock price and making sure their team hits the KPIs that are honestly unrealistic. Teams find success one way or the other with these methods, but their reps have to put in their blood, sweat, and tears to get it for them. Reps work very hard and they are not getting paid enough to do what they are doing on a daily/weekly basis.

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for sharing your honest feedback with us. We continue to grow rapidly, and in this high growth environment we recognize the demand that this can create on our Sales team. Ensuring our employees have the support they need to maintain a strong work/life balance and grow personally and professionally is a priority of ours. We do continuously evaluate our compensation through market analysis to ensure we're staying competitive in our industry. We encourage you to also bring this feedback to your People Business Partner so we can work together on exploring some of the ideas you mentioned around structured vacation time and out of office plans. We value the remarkable work you do for us here at Datadog, and want to create a positive experience and workplace culture for everyone. Feedback like this helps us continue to grow and improve our processes, and we appreciate you taking the time to leave this review so that we can continue to learn and improve.

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