Can't trust leadership and company values are a facade. - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

I'm sorry our values are not reflected in your personal experience. With that, I want to use this opportunity to share my perspective on career growth at DO. I can tell you that we are deeply committed to being a deliberately developmental organization. It's something I personally believe in and I know it's a huge part of the reason the business has scaled and been as successful as you noted. But it's important to keep in mind that development and growth does not always necessarily mean the same thing as just being promoted. Development comes in many forms. We're a rapidly growing company and the scale and scope of things every employee is working on and is exposed to is exponentially bigger than it was even 12 months ago. We have products, teams and departments that didn't exist last year. We continue to invest in opportunities to learn inside and outside the company, and many employees have broadened their experience by moving into other roles across the company. Those all create the conditions for important and powerful learning and experience for growth. It is true that many of our senior leaders have come outside the company of late. That's a function of needing the experience at scale that we haven't had internally, and of an intentional desire to provide leadership and mentorship for our employees to learn from. I expect that will change as we mature and evolve, and I'm certainly committed to looking for opportunities to fill senior roles internally as well. But we remain a company that firmly believes in creating developmental experiences for employees at DO and that core belief goes well beyond title and level progression. I hope that's helpful perspective. I'm available to discuss more and I hope you do come to me and your manager if you're unhappy with the progression and development opportunities you're seeing in your career right now.