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      Needs some serious work - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

      3.0
      Sep 14, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      DigitalOcean has hired some great people who are committed to the success of the company. Some teams are a joy to work with.

      Cons

      DigitalOcean's culture and people operations are below par, primarily due to an inexperienced and unprofessional employee experience leadership team.

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      DigitalOcean Response
      9y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback. I'm sorry you're not having a positive experience. The perspective is disappointing and definitely a bit surprising, given that the overwhelming majority of feedback from Glassdoor and our own internal engagement survey specifically notes our employee experience as one of the highlights of working at DigitalOcean. It's certainly something we take pride in. I want to make sure everyone who works at DO has an amazing experience. One of the foundations of our culture is our deep belief in open and candid feedback. If you are still here, my ask of you would be to share your specific concerns with me directly so we can help address them and improve for everyone.

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      5.0
      Mar 30, 2026
      Senior performance engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      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
      Senior software engineer
      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.

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