DigitalOcean reviews

I would not recommend working at DigitalOcean. The company has a toxic culture from top to bottom (ELT to ICs), and the leadership team lacks experience to run a profitable company. There is a pervasive blame culture that creates an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. There's also clear favoritism towards certain employees, which creates an uneven playing field for everyone else. On top of that, the company isn't transparent about its goals or direction, making it difficult for employees to feel like they're working towards something meaningful. For example, leadership was adamant that there would not be layoffs, and two months later they conducted a RIF in the most inhumane way due to poor leadership choices made years prior. Overall, while the compensation and benefits are decent, the culture at DigitalOcean is not healthy or supportive. If you're looking for a company where you can grow and thrive in a positive environment, I would suggest looking elsewhere.

Absolutely cannot trust leadership, mainly C-suite as they do as they please, if someone gives a voice against they will be silenced. I was part of layoff in Feb and it was so crushing experience to be just cutoff without even given a chance to say goodbuy to your own team. Just cut suddenly without any warnings. Even if just month before the sentiment given was exact opposite. Promises were made, but in the end not honored. It is sad they made their own values meaningless with 1 swoop. They spent cash buying other companies, are profitable and were in good pace. Layoffs were not a necessary action. However they are buying their own stock back. This was pure greed play, nothing more. Love as a value is just a bad joke. All this is public information as well.