Successful company, great people, can be hard to find your path - Software Engineer II DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
Jul 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I liked my day to day work while I was employed at DigitalOcean. The people were great and there were some interesting things to work on. I worked on one of the compute product teams and there was plenty of opportunity to think from the users' perspective (e.g. how they would deploy code to it) and the back end's perspective (e.g. how we would scale to the users' deployed workloads and have good observability).

Cons

Unfortunately, there were many products in the lineup at the time I joined and some were given less priority than others. It was like the company was still trying to find its overall direction. I think they overhired for my team, not realizing they'd switch focus from my team's product to other ones. This led to me being laid off. I got generous notice and severance though.

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5.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Solid engineering team, seems to have found a niche and is working it hard.

Cons

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2.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
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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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