DO Remote Employee - Data Center Capacity Planner DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
Sep 14, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High paced work environment, great culture and people. Awesome work/life balance for a start up.

Cons

Remote employees don't get to experience the delicious lunches provided in NYC.

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DigitalOcean Response
7y
Thank you for the feedback. The lunches are pretty delicious! We try hard to make our remote experience is great as an in-office one. It sounds like you are appreciating the culture we've created overall but we need to do better at increasing inclusivity with remote events. We will absolutely focus on that more, especially as we build up our Bay Area presence - please let us know how we are doing.

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