Effective teams and profitability amid leadership turnover - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

• Localized instances of effective personnel, functional teams, and viable products remain. • Existing profitability provides a foundation for sustainable operations. • Prior emphasis on organizational values established a coherent cultural baseline.

Cons

• Ongoing leadership turnover is contributing to a shift in organizational identity. • Current priorities appear to emphasize accelerated growth over long-term sustainability. • Opportunities for deliberate engineering practices and incremental improvement may be underutilized. • Incoming leadership may not fully assess existing teams, technologies, or institutional knowledge, leading to redundant efforts. • Employee capabilities are not consistently evaluated or leveraged, reducing effective role differentiation.

Explore other reviews about DigitalOcean

5.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Solid engineering team, seems to have found a niche and is working it hard.

Cons

Smaller company, so low in the prestige

2.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- lots of ownership - decent middle management - great teammates - learning a lot - older employees do tend to have competitive RSU grants and salaries

Cons

- tons of legacy systems (10+ years version of Ruby on Rails... 10+ years since some products or services were updated, 0 associated automation to help) - last 2y of leadership has brought on tons of reorgs & changes. Example - recommended PTO days quietly went down, got rid of lots of free snacks, anniversary gifts went down $100s of dollars, plenty of silent layoffs - Senior leadership is focused on 1 thing - getting the stock price up. Has no interest in supporting some of our legacy systems that can prop up new products. - new hires are not fitting into our culture. Inflated titles. Empire building. Awarded for submitting buggy AI Slop code. Encourage working on the weekends. Starting to get toxic.

2
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All