From Hero to Zero. Would not recommend anymore. - Software Engineer IV GoDaddy Employee Review

2.0
22 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It pays okay and work life balance is better than many other companies.

Cons

Aman and the current leadership has more or less gutted the company for quick profit. Profits have shot through the roof, but they've laid off so many people that even teams like Authentication barely have enough employees to keep the lights on (Auth has only 2 backend engineers). It's been sad to watch this company disintegrate from within. 3 years ago I was recommending it to everyone as an awesome place to work, but that has changed so quickly it's shocking. My individual manager is great, but I talk to him about what is going on above him and it's dog eat dog. Infighting, leaders constantly backstabbing each other. Most of the leadership who were pro-employee and pro-culture have left to "spend more time with family" besides one person - and he was removed from his job and, quite literally, put onto the task of figuring out what tools and benefits they should cut to save money. That was his announced job - figure out how to cut tools and benefits. The last year has seen them cutting good, useful tools across the board and replacing them with tools that are worse in most capacities, but are cheap. This has resulted in a lots of time spent tool jumping, and reduced capabilities for their employees. Run away.

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GoDaddy Response
2y
We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and provide feedback. We are committed to hearing all employee feedback, and will continue to improve the experience and benefits for all employees.

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5.0
1 Jun 2026
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Pros

I am able to be my best self in the environment I work in. I am encouraged to ask questions and come up with solutions to problems - often the identification of a problem doesn't have a clearly prescribed solution - My leadership allows me to be proactive and come up with more ideal solutions than 'just what works'.

Cons

This is a large company, and mileage may vary. Bringing your best self should be a requirement for all positions in all companies.

3.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Your immediate team and management/leadership will feel like family and is often willing to do a lot for you.

Cons

Overall vacation/paid time off is good. But run out of paid time off and HR is there to kick you out immediately. They have no room nor respect for true emergencies. Infact, they act excited to have someone to punish. Work amounts to you being the receptical for all of the emotionally unstable clients who wish to verbally abuse someone for all the bad things happening in their life. For some inexplicable reason for a company at the revenue level its at, it tries its hardest to retain the worst clients imaginable as if losing their business means the company dies. It would much rather see an employee quit then lose a bad client. I 100% believe this company tries harder to retain business from anyone then it would ever go to bat for you as an employee. And our good clients are treated badly, we bend over backwards to support and teach our customers, and often getting them the support they need amounts to shrugging from senior leadership. You are expendable, and its obvious the company views you as such, a necessary evil in the way of more bonus money for executives. They are hard at work training AI agents to eventually replace many front line customer support, along with overseas associates who clients endlessly complain about. You will be paid about 20 to 40 cent raises a year regardless of how well or not you work. And good luck being promoted for being competent or above competent at your role. You need family/friends in leadership to even be considered. The company will start hemorrhaging employees the moment the job market gets better. Oh. And only DEI matters here. If you are white and male, good luck being looked at for anything. Ive met many talented leaders here and its lame to even think for a second this company may have promoted them for reasons other then their absolute skill in the role they are in. They deserve it for what they do, the hard work they put in, not to fill a corporate check box.

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GoDaddy Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re genuinely sorry to hear that some aspects of your experience left you feeling this way. At GoDaddy, we are committed to creating an environment where all employees are treated fairly and have equal opportunity to grow and succeed. We do not tolerate discrimination, retaliation, or behavior that conflicts with our values. If you’ve experienced or observed something that doesn’t align with these standards, we want to hear about it so we can address it. We encourage you to share more details through our Ethics Helpline (www.godaddy.com/ethicshelpline), which is available 24/7 and allows for anonymous reporting. We remain committed to creating a workplace environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and valued.
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