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      Great company, great benefits - Network Engineer DigitalOcean Employee Review

      5.0
      16 Mar 2016
      Network engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I'm a remote employee, and the culture from the office definitely carries over to the remotes as well. DigitalOcean does a great job of trying to maintain benefit parity between local and remote employees, such as paying for our Internet access instead of a subway pass, sending us snack boxes instead of the in-office kitchen, and so on. Overall everyone I work with is pretty positive about the company and what we're working on, which is hugely refreshing after my last employer.

      Cons

      Management has been a bit unstable since I was brought on-board, but I think that's mostly a symptom of the company's rapid expansion and trying to find it's feet with a swelling employee count. Even with that though, top brass has done a good job of communicating changes and trying to express their vision to the rest of us.

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      DigitalOcean Response
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      We care a lot about our remote employees and want them to have the same amazing experience as the folks in our NYC headquarters. Thank you for the positive affirmation that the efforts we are making on their behalf are appreciated!

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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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