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      DigitalOcean

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      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

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      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 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
      2.0
      Oct 31, 2017

      Looks promising but actually very disappointing

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1) DO is a great place for interns. It has a very hip and relax environment. With all the marketing DO has spent to promote itself as a people first company and as a serious contender of Amazon, putting “DO” on your resume can be really good. 2) Perks and benefits are GREAT. The salary is very competitive since it’s a NYC company. 3) Great remote culture, especially considering all the perks and competitive salary.

      Cons

      1) Siloed work culture. It's quite disturbing to see how it stages and fakes the work culture on cam and in front of the media 2) Lack of transparency. The company always says “love” when he wants to avoid a controversial topic and underplay the severity of an issue. 3) So obsessed with numbers. Every employee is just a statistic. The company aggressively hires people to achieve the target but also aggressively loses its good people. Unfortunately, it doesn’t detail the two sides of the story behind the numbers, such as # of hires increases but churn also increases… why such high employee turnover… who knows? Only the positive side gets disclosed. 4) The leadership team keeps building layers of mediocre management team especially the middle management. Good people or the entire team were leaving this company. Some left on their own and some were let-go to accommodate a new hire. Obviously, there’s no growth and promotion in this company.

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      DigitalOcean Response
      8y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback and I am sorry to hear you're not having the best experience. We are indeed a great place for interns to work and I hope for FT employees as well, and I think for most people that experience is authentic Just to clarify any misperceptions in this review, our retention is incredibly high and voluntary turnover is approaching single digits. As part of our committment to transparency we share those metrics quarterly with the entire company. We also are deeply committed to development at DO and in line with that almost a quarter of employees were either promoted or moved into new senior roles across the organization in 2017. I'm sorry that objective reality doesn't map to your personal experience. If there's anything we can to do better support you please reach out to me or someone on my team directly. We'd love to help where we can.
      1.0
      Dec 25, 2024

      Don't join DO

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      NA Pathetic to work Micro manage

      Cons

      Management is totally messed up, they themselves don't where they are heading. No longer remote. Soon gonna layoff Moving positions to India/pakistan to get cheap slaves.

      1.0
      Nov 16, 2023

      Slowly becoming a Pakistani company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Company has carved its own niche in the market Compensation Remote working

      Cons

      Right from Board of directors to Manager level folks, everyone is insecure After the CEO of Cloudways became the CRO of DigitalOcean, love is lost and the environment is more of fear Like other dirty corporates, new leadership is hiring their friends and family The CRO has balance in his bank so he doesn't really care about anyone Normally the company that acquires has higher rights and authority than the company which is acquired. In case of DigitalOcean its vice versa, Cloudways leadership is dominant, Paperspace treats it's DigitalOcean colleagues disrespectfully and lowly No in house product development You will be successful based on your shoe licking skills and not hardwork CRO is a big time micromanager, all the awesome VPs and SVPs have left as no one want to work with him but the board of directors cannot see that

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