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		waitwhatt on Aug 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Datadog S-1 This company has a shite hiring process. Ask you to submit pull request on github with answers to a challenge (and you can publicly view other people's answers as it is a public repo). The answers were straight forward and I didn't pass. And I could see my answers were the same as other people submitting. Very odd company.

mjfisher on Aug 24, 2019 | [–]

I've never quite understood the rationale behind the 'public PR' method of submitting coding challenges.

I understand it's much lower friction for the recruitment team, but having everyone else's answers public too kind of defeats the point entirely.

Nostromos on Aug 24, 2019 | [–]

What role were you interviewing for?

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