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      Technical job, great community - Lead Product Designer DigitalOcean Employee Review

      4.0
      Jan 2, 2024
      Lead product designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Empathetic, kind, smart coworkers - 100% remote culture, flexible work life - Company doing reasonably well according to financial experts

      Cons

      - Technical product. Been here for 3 months and I still don't understand half of the things we do - Not a lot of design maturity. Living between 2 design systems and can't seem to fully retire the old one. Design process not fully developed, however the company seems eager and willing to let designers take on more leadership/control.

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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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