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
3.0
Sep 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

the work life balance is great and my team works really hard to protect that.

Cons

this is a deeply technical company run by a c-suite that has zero product vision. we haven't built a substantially new product in years with our only new releases being through acquisitions or white-labeling other company's products. for example: before recently acquiring Paperspace for its GPU compute platform, we had multiple aborted attempts to build our own GPU product that were always abandoned as soon as the current crypto or Al hype cycle waned. and now that we have Paperspace, that's being run by our M&A division instead of product or engineering and there's no plan from leadership on how to integrate their wildly-incompatible tech stack. the c-suite is a bunch of clowns LARPing as successful tech execs as they drive this company into the ground. at least the board is finally starting to fire them though.

2.0
Apr 10, 2023

Used to be great

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent learning experience, you're writing code to serve other developers, so you run into a lot of really interesting problems that can really help you in your career. The people are awesome, there's really a cohesive culture here. The tech stack is (at the time of this writing) the industry standard, so you will be able to move around easily after your tenure here. Management will support your professional growth, you can opt to go to conventions, speak at conferences... etc. They are remote first, (and always have been). Most teams have a robust process for SDLC, which is great for getting a lot of input and feedback from your team and others in the org.

Cons

The comp isn't there for companies of this size. If you were there pre-IPO, you were set up pretty well. If you started post-IPO the stock grants are pretty pitiful. They don't have a contingency plan for retaining employees past their four year mark. They removed a 2.5 yr refresh a few years ago in favor of performance based refreshes, and those have been very small. WLB used to be excellent, but they recently removed recharge days off that were universally popular. Also with the recent reduction in force, teams have been merged together, vastly increasing individual responsibility. Leadership tends to switch positions pretty quickly and isn't very transparent on their decision making process when it suits them. AUA's have gone from having legitimate critiques inspiring real change at the company to leadership defending their positions. Reorg, then reorg, then layoffs, then re-hire. Management can't decide what org structure makes sense.

3.0
Feb 15, 2023

Love is not at your core.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- The people were all great. - Standard cushy tech benefits. - Good Work/Life balance. - Unlimited PTO.

Cons

Mass Layoffs with no communication beforehand. Peers and I woke up to being locked out of everything. Leadership has never felt empathetic or communicative, and a lot of recent decisions have come out of nowhere and not made much sense, but this was beyond disrespectful. C Suite is defensive when called out.

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