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      Great Company and Culture - Technical Operations Engineer DigitalOcean Employee Review

      5.0
      Sep 5, 2015
      Technical operations engineer
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      I love working for DO. Very competitive salary and benefits. Co-workers are welcoming. You're part of the family from day one. The hardware/software is cutting edge and you work with some of the brightest engineers in the industry. Management is very open and responsive to feedback. The C levels are approachable and keep everyone looped in on the direction of the company. There are many promotions from within, lots of opportunities for advancement if you work hard.

      Cons

      DigitalOcean is rapidly expanding, so there are some growing pains that come with that. Some recent additions to the recruiting team should help bring up the pace of new hires.

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      5.0
      Mar 30, 2026
      Senior performance engineer ii
      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
      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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