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      Growing, but awesome - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

      5.0
      Aug 3, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart people. Great lower+mid-level management. Extremely excellent remote culture. Awesome market and customers. Get to work on fun/hard problems at scale. Pays well. Great opportunities for advancement.

      Cons

      Upper management hasn't been very stable, but that's not really a negative, just "not awesome". The company is growing too, and that automatically means things change. As far as I've seen, it's usually for the better, but I understand earlier employees feeling like things are wildly different now.

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      DigitalOcean Response
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      We are indeed awesome. Thank you for the feedback. I especially appreciate the insights on our managers -- we invest a lot in making sure they are supporting and developing their teams to the fullest of their potential, and it's great to see that's paying off. Please keep sharing feedback so that we remain at current levels of awesomeness!

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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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