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      Engineering Manager - Engineering Manager DigitalOcean Employee Review

      5.0
      Jan 26, 2018
      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Open, honest environment - they care about people as well as products. Fast moving - no time to get bored! Very well set up for remote employees.

      Cons

      Not much attention has been paid to keeping track of history so when the players change or move on, decisions are often questioned and revisited

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      DigitalOcean Response
      8y
      You read my mind -- we are growing very quickly, and while that comes with lots of developmental opportunities for employees to move into new roles. sometimes that means we don't support the transition as well as we should. It is something squarely on our team's radar at the moment, and you should expect a lot more support around ensuring folks have clear objectives and development plans when they move into new teams, and managers have all the information they need to effectively support their teams' growth and success. Please keep us accountable for ensuring this happens in a healthy way!

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      5.0
      Mar 30, 2026
      Senior performance engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Solid engineering team, seems to have found a niche and is working it hard.

      Cons

      Smaller company, so low in the prestige

      2.0
      May 18, 2026
      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.

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