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      Used to be great - Anonymous employee DigitalOcean Employee Review

      1.0
      Dec 17, 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      IC coworkers are great people

      Cons

      Below average pay. DO used to be a great place and is now absolutely horrible due to recent leadership changes. A massive culture shift happened and has made DO a hostile and stressful place to work. You are in crunch all the time and are expected to work overtime and even during PTO to get things done. You are told to leave if you don't like it. Any disagreements are either deleted or you are let go. It's a true shame as this was a great place to work not that long ago. So many great people are leaving.

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      5.0
      Mar 30, 2026
      Senior performance engineer ii
      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
      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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