Over hyped startup - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

2.0
Aug 16, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They offer a number of great benefits, (MTA cards, seamless accounts, pay). Most people here are nice and fun.

Cons

A lot of the "benefits" they advertise are non existent. Want to actually take time off? Prepare to be bad mouthed and fight for it. Want to go to an industry event? Maybe you can manage it, but most likely there'll be an excuse for why you can't go. People here think working at a cool tech startup means they're too cool to do things in a professional manner. No one wants to take responsibility, and would rather hunt for scapegoats.

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- 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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