Does DigitalOcean pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, DigitalOcean employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at DigitalOcean. This rating has decreased by 6% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at DigitalOcean?

58% of DigitalOcean employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated DigitalOcean 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at DigitalOcean?

Software Engineer (37) , Senior Software Engineer (26) , Developer Support Engineer (13) , Software Engineer II (10) , Customer Success Manager (CSM) (6) , Engineer (6) , Cloud Support Engineer (5) , Director (5) , Network Engineer (5) , Senior Engineer I (5) , Technical Writer (5) , Account Executive (4) , Account Manager (4) , Cloud Engineer (4) , Customer Success Manager (4)

What are the pros of working at DigitalOcean according to real employee reviews?

"1) Complete embrace of remote work and remote culture" ((in 61 reviews)); "The benefits and great WLB." ((in 46 reviews)); "The people were great and there were some interesting things to work on." ((in 39 reviews)); "Good work life balance (at least after understanding the role and what's required)" ((in 28 reviews)); "Good pay, company provided snacks" ((in 25 reviews))

What are the cons of working at DigitalOcean according to real employee reviews?

"The only thing at the core of all leadership does is profit." ((in 17 reviews)); "based terminations, there are periodic layoffs with people chosen at random." ((in 11 reviews)); "Upper management does not have a good goal." ((in 6 reviews)); "The CEO seemed to imply that these were never meant to be permanent, but the company never communicated the expectations clearly." ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about DigitalOcean layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about DigitalOcean layoffs and their outlook for job security at DigitalOcean in 2026.

What are the top reviewed DigitalOcean locations?

New York , San Francisco , Austin , Dallas , Denver , Detroit , Raleigh , Cambridge , Remote , New Brunswick , Salt Lake City , Mexico , San Antonio , Seattle , Philadelphia , Orlando , Boston , Union , Chicago , Fairfax , Brooklyn , Madison , Phoenix , Lexington , Winston-Salem , Houston , Minneapolis , Los Angeles , San Diego , Palo Alto

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DigitalOcean reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(450 total reviews)

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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Reviews by job title

450 reviews

3.0

Feb 22, 2025

Benefits good, but mid level managers underqualified

Analytics engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are good: - 401k match - RSU - fair salary

Cons

Mid level leadership felt like they were heavily under qualified. I never felt like I had any thing to learn from my direct manager.

5.0

Feb 22, 2025

A company with really good culture

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1) The culture and people are stellar 2) Great product market fit

Cons

1) Lots of changes in the management team

4.0

Jul 5, 2024

Not a bad place to work

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Probably the best company culture I have ever experienced. Chill people who care about what they do and are willing to collaborate. I rarely get paged or am asked to work crazy hours (although this isn't the same across all teams). Good experience for those interested in getting into DevOps; you will probably do everything from writing software to deploying, managing, and monitoring it.

Cons

Always too much work to do and never enough time to do it. Management prefers to buy stock back rather than reinvesting in the business. Salaries are not top tier. Not the most exciting in terms of innovation and technology. Leadership has been lacking in product and technical vision. A lot of what we do is just keeping our existing tech stack running.

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