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      5.0
      31 Oct 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I am empowered and trusted to do my job. DO is good at giving employees space to leverage their skills in support of DO's goals and vision. The company is growing fast and there is massive attention being spent on how to scale DO properly. Employees are smart, inspired, adaptable, genuine and focused on making DigitalOcean a very important company.

      Cons

      Growing companies can struggle to create processes at scale, and DO is no exception. Executive leadership has a general disdain for policies and decision making. When decisions aren't being made quickly, alignment goes out the window and clarity around policies, processes, business decisions and philosophies is allusive.

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      DigitalOcean Response
      8y
      We are definitely trying hard to balance the empowered approach to decision making with the need to have more process in scale. It's always a work in progress but please keep giving us feedback on where we are landing well and where we're not. Agreement that there's lots of opportunity in a company growing as quickly as DO to get better alignment at the top and I think you'll see a renewed focus on that as a top priority. Thank you for the candid and helpful feedback!

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      5.0
      30 Mar 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
      18 May 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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