Great Work Environment, Trending Towards Greatest - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

5.0
18 Aug 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work alongside extremely smart people, for a company that truly cares about your well-being. Even remote employees are taken care of, with monthly gift boxes and best-effort attempts to make them feel involved with in-office events. Great office if you live in NYC (or Toronto!) and very remote-friendly if you're not. Depending on your team, there's lots of room for growth and upward mobility.

Cons

Communication between teams is far from perfect, but is improving. A number of cliques, and some teams are a bit disconnected from the rest of the org, sometimes by choice and other times for no clear reason. Engineering organization has changed several times over the past year.

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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
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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