Great people, great benefits, but be sure about working remote - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
22 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

DO cares about its employees and the benefits offered are really good. Especially if you are not in NYC and be sitting around the world. The culture is inclusive and focused on a great employee experience.

Cons

You have to be sure about working 100% remote in most cases. There are not great many opportunities to build a career within the engineering org. There are also a lot of growing pains in the engineering org.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
18 May 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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