Great environment, great company - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
Apr 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Still keeping the 'get things done' attitude from the startup days. * Lots of interesting scalability problems to solve (not just on the technical side) * Lots of smart and efficient colleagues constantly raising the bar. * Great DE&I initiatives. * Work/life balance. Unlimited PTO, recharge days, resources for remote working. Environment respecting offline hours, vacations. * Well-thought selection of benefits, aimed towards improving work/life balance even more.

Cons

* Company grew very fast during the past two years and is experiencing growing pains as existing processes adapt to the new size and conditions. * Tech debt that needs to be dealt with (might be a pro for some folks) * While sporadic, there's still some resistance to change, especially around deeply ingrained processes. This is improving fast though.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 18, 2026
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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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