They have repeatedly called my personal phone to “just check in” despite me telling them each time that I’m not interested. Never contacted them or gave them personal info as far as I can remember.
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#42Yes - pretty much every our engineer with “lead” in title was persietently attacked by them. They were so persistent that we needed to implement a company-wide block on their email domain. After that calls to personal numbers began. It went so far at one point we needed to make threats with legal action. At one point we were on a market for solutin like theirs and we talked with their engineering (we temporarily lift…
I spoke to them and didn't follow up. They called at least five of our engineers (on the telephone) to try and get in touch with me.
What can we do to make this less acceptable?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?
#43My wife is friends someone a DD sales person. I had no idea what her husband did for a living since I didn't know either. So we go over to their house for dinner and he finds out I'm head of a devops/SRE team and I got a DD sales pitch for close to 2 hours. I've never wanted to excuse myself to the bathroom and just sit in there doing nothing all night more in all my life.
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Offensive?
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#44Yes loads of spam directed at individuals data harvested from linkedin in the last few months. I recently banned the domain.
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#45My wife is friends someone a DD sales person. I had no idea what her husband did for a living since I didn't know either. So we go over to their house for dinner and he finds out I'm head of a devops/SRE team and I got a DD sales pitch for close to 2 hours. I've never wanted to excuse myself to the bathroom and just sit in there doing nothing all night more in all my life.
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It's relevant. It's a humorous and relatable personal anecdote aka a good story. It's not offensive.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?
#46I talked to one of their sales people once on the phone.
I don't really mind the effort. You have to sell to grow your business.
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#47As an owner of a couple of companies, I get almost constant unsolicited spam, SMS, and calls. I generally ignore most. Occasionally, if I feel confident it will be honored, I unsub. I just feel that it is corrosive, professionally, to complain about/attack others in a professional fora. For example, LinkedIn often has stuff posted that could be used as a powerful emetic. I just ignore it. I may take note of the autho…
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#48I talked to one of their sales people once on the phone. I don't really mind the effort. You have to sell to grow your business.
Its one thing to grow your business, but repeatedly spamming people is obnoxious and gives me a bad impression of their company. Next time I need an obseravbility product, datadog will not be high in my list of candidates
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's a common story of what DataDog sales is. Used to be a customer, 7-figures annual invoice with DataDog, not anymore. Heck, working with them for years, I still managed to make a mistake and get 4-figures bill on my personal account. Their sales are worse than paparazzi who spy on celebs. Avoid at all costs.
I think it speaks more towards salesmen in general than Datadog
That's too broad of a generalization tbh. Personal experience: I worked on large contracts with Google Cloud, AWS, DoIT, Cloudflare, and others. I have nothing bad to say about them: they do their job and we move along just fine. Except DataDog - intrusive, borderline stalking behavior.
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#50[Self-plug] After building poachme.dev with a friend, I have personally found that a lot of people who spam really do it because it's low cost and wasting your time costs them nothing so I personally grab the standard reply message template and hit them with a
"Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this: https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro"
I know they didn't "read my profile" or "find me to be the best candidate" so I just respond in kind... you wanna waste my time? Fine, I'll sit through your shpeill for $100 and if I'm so important to you, you'll pay it, if not, well, that's fine too.