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      DigitalOcean

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      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

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      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
      2.0
      May 18, 2026

      What was once a great company has turned into an AI Slop fiasco

      Senior software engineer
      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.

      4.0
      Jul 23, 2025

      A decent place to be

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Full time remote work - Compensation and benefits are okay - Role/Work is enjoyable - CEO does have a good directional plan

      Cons

      - Reporting layers are bloated, lots of vp/sr vp type of roles exist - Work recognition lacking - Over the past 4 years benefits and perks have been cut where it feels more like a corporation while it still has start up vibes - Cross functional work has challenges and is siloed - Constant feel of unease over employment security

      4.0
      Apr 1, 2025

      Smart employees, quality product, poor leadership

      Lead product designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I worked with a lot of really smart people—especially the other designers, and particularly some of the engineers. I learned a lot about cloud computing, and everyone there (at least on the IC level) was super kind.

      Cons

      Recently there have been some questionable firings after employees raised some concerns about product direction to leadership. Leadership emphasized that they wanted to move quickly and they told everyone to "disagree and commit", but refused to be transparent about the decisions they were making at the executive level. Constant changes are happening at the organizational level that affect individual contributors greatly, but very little is done to explain why decisions were made or ease any difficult transitions that have to be made.

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