AVOID at all costs - Commercial Account Executive Datadog Employee Review

1.0
31 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- fun colleagues - great onboarding training

Cons

-Micromanagement to the highest level -Prospect accounts have been so saturated by Datadog’a pipeline generation approach that potential customers don’t even want to talk with Datadog -Very aggressive demand generation technique -If you don’t reach your metrics ( number of calls & emails) during quarter’s end where you’re busy closing you’ll get a message from management saying that your soft KPI’s are unacceptable -Too many internal mandatory calls which takes away time best served somewhere else -only a handful of reps close and it’s always the same ones. Meaning great accounts are being allocated to senior reps. Leaving little chance to new reps to close any deals. -America thinks the “one size fits all” approach is applicable to EU, which is entirely incorrect

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Datadog Response
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Thank you for sharing your candid feedback, and we're sorry that your experience at Datadog was anything but positive. We continue to grow rapidly around the world, and operate in a high growth environment because of the speed at which we're scaling globally. We appreciate you taking the time to leave this review, and will do all we can to continue improving as a company and department every day.

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