Not a bad place to work - Senior Software Engineer DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
Jul 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Probably the best company culture I have ever experienced. Chill people who care about what they do and are willing to collaborate. I rarely get paged or am asked to work crazy hours (although this isn't the same across all teams). Good experience for those interested in getting into DevOps; you will probably do everything from writing software to deploying, managing, and monitoring it.

Cons

Always too much work to do and never enough time to do it. Management prefers to buy stock back rather than reinvesting in the business. Salaries are not top tier. Not the most exciting in terms of innovation and technology. Leadership has been lacking in product and technical vision. A lot of what we do is just keeping our existing tech stack running.

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5.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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