DigitalOcean reviews

- 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.

- UXR and Product Design have been consistently devalued an divested from in the last 2-3 years. - There seems to be a constant leadership churn, and a lack of understanding or clarity on how non-engineering roles provide value to the organization - Super top-down decision making, but without any effort to provide context or clarity. It's a highest-paid-person in the room kind of culture. And many product decisions seem to be made based on gut feel or board demands.