DigitalOcean reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(450 total reviews)
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Paddy Srinivasan

56% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

DigitalOcean has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 450 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DigitalOcean employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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450 reviews
4.0
Feb 5, 2018

Playing Catch Up

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Pros

* Great benefits/perks * Overall, smart people to work with * Interesting problems and scale

Cons

* Can not hire management worth a damn. Company has had three different heads of engineering (CTO, CTO, VP) that have lasted a year or less. Each departure was probably different, at least two were removed due to incompetence, * Can not fire bad talent (good lord there are some dinosaurs who contribute literally nothing to the company other than unneeded last minute opinions/blockers) * Easy to get frustrated because of the glacier like pace everything moves at

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DigitalOcean Response
8y
Thanks as always for the feedback. I agree that we have some really smart people here and that we are working on some challenging problems on a scale unmatched by few other organizations. It's one of the main reasons why talented people choose to join us. On the feedback regarding our Engineering leadership, there's of course not a lot I can say. I will share that some of what you say is just factually incorrect-- only one early leader was here for less than a year as point of record -- but to address the larger context, as many rocket-ship companies scale it's not uncommon for the needs of leaders and the needs of an organization to diverge over time. And it's healthy for both parties to recognize that in a transparent and positive way. More specifically, while we would never, ever talk about why any individual left, to even remotely suggest that leaders of that caliber left for anything close to incompetence is unkind, unfair, and untrue. I don't know what to do with an anonymous comment around "bad talent" without being able to evaluate the source and context. I think a more helpful approach -- which I'd absolutely encourage you to do -- is share your concerns directly with your manager or with me or someone else on the People team so we can help address them. We have a pretty high bar for performance at DO and if you feel something is blocking you from being successful please come to us directly and candidly so we can help.
5.0
Jan 29, 2018

Excellent place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Wonderful smart people, great benefits. Excellent working environment for both remote and office employees

Cons

If you're not on first shift you kinda miss out on a lot of the meetings and hangouts. Can get a bit lonely.

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DigitalOcean Response
8y
Thank you for the feedback. Please come join us in our alumni community on Slack! I promise you won't get lonely there :)
5.0
Jan 26, 2018

Engineering Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Open, honest environment - they care about people as well as products. Fast moving - no time to get bored! Very well set up for remote employees.

Cons

Not much attention has been paid to keeping track of history so when the players change or move on, decisions are often questioned and revisited

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DigitalOcean Response
8y
You read my mind -- we are growing very quickly, and while that comes with lots of developmental opportunities for employees to move into new roles. sometimes that means we don't support the transition as well as we should. It is something squarely on our team's radar at the moment, and you should expect a lot more support around ensuring folks have clear objectives and development plans when they move into new teams, and managers have all the information they need to effectively support their teams' growth and success. Please keep us accountable for ensuring this happens in a healthy way!
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