DigitalOcean Senior Software Developer reviews

2.3

17% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)
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Paddy Srinivasan

11% approve of CEO

3% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated DigitalOcean with 2.3 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an average working experience there. DigitalOcean is rated 40% below average by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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26 reviews
2.0
18 May 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.

1.0
13 Aug 2025

Would not recommend

Recommend
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Pros

IC’s enjoy collaborating. Friendly and supportive community among the lower levels of IC and management.

Cons

Poor executive leadership. Upper management shows very little trust in engineers. Poor engineering culture, no investment or time put into experimentation or POC’s. Constantly fighting escalations and incidents. Very little recognition or rewards.

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