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      So far so good - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

      4.0
      May 11, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The desire to help and share knowledge is something I have never experienced in any of my previous jobs. Was I just unlucky or DO is truly special in this regard?

      Cons

      I expected to see a little less engineering technical debt for a company of this age and size, but all in all nothing too scary.

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      DigitalOcean Response
      8y
      I think we are pretty special! Being a deliberatively developmental organization means we share knowledge and help each other learn and grow. That's how we continually raise the bar on performance and impact in a healthy, sustainable fashion. And I agree that like any fast growing technology organization, we have our fair share of technical debt, but it's something we're intentionally working on. I'm glad you're part of the team helping us address it!

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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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