DigitalOcean reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(451 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 451 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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451 reviews
4.0
Apr 27, 2015

Welcome to the DigitalOcean Family

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

DigitalOcean has taken the cloud hosting world by storm and the internal company environment has a ton to do with it. DigitalOcean is a company stuffed to the gills with incredibly talented and intelligent people. You will be inspired by your coworkers. DigitalOcean also takes a lot of care to ensure that employees feel happy and appreciated. Tons of fun company events, outings, and activities (we made tie dyed shirts a while back) keep you excited to come to the office. Additionally, original thinking is appreciated and you truly feel ownership of your work.

Cons

As with all company, there are growing pains when you scale quickly. However, DigitalOcean employees and management are constantly striving to build a better and better environment.

5.0
Nov 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Amazing remote culture and laser-sharp focus on making that work * Highly-skilled group of people who take their jobs seriously * Really interesting at-scale problems to solve across the entire tech stack * Current management is very open and honest about the challenges, no visible "head in sand" moments so far * I like a company that knows at which inflection points in growth changes in management are required. From what I can see, DO has no problem making those calls

Cons

* Rapid growth (both in head count and in product offering) have created a degree of instability and disorganization, particularly at the process level * The tech stack is very much in flux at the moment, with layers of legacy, experimentation, and modern sitting atop (and within) one-another; it's chaotic * I struggle to think of anything else worthwhile that would warrant memorializing in perpetuity. So far it's been a pretty great place to work

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DigitalOcean Response
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Thanks for this. Great candid, insightful, and actionable feedback. I'm glad you appreciate our intentional focus on culture, and that the transparency we are showing on how to address challenges with eyes wide open is recognized. Keep sharing your ideas!
2.0
Feb 16, 2023

No trust anymore

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good, fully remote, still a lot of talented engineers left. If you're on a good team, day-to-day work is very enjoyable.

Cons

With constant change of priorities and reorgs there's never time to focus on long-term projects. Instead of performance-based terminations, there are periodic layoffs with people chosen at random. Lots of hard-working engineers with glowing performance reviews gone. ICs are blamed for management mistakes. When tech debt creeped in and customers started leaving due to platform instabilities, the executives didn't even acknowledge that prioritizing fast feature shipment led to this situation, they just blamed individual engineers for not being cautious enough when deploying changes.

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