19 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
DigitalOcean Response
7yThanks for the feedback. We work really hard to keep the culture great. We hear you on communication and transparency, and I promise it's top of mind for everyone. Hold us to that.
amazing brand + culture, a ton of runway - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review
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5.0
30 Mar 2026
Current employee, less than 1 year
Santa Cruz, CA
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
18 May 2026
Current employee, more than 5 years
Denver, CO
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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