Does Dgraph Labs pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Dgraph Labs employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Dgraph Labs. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Dgraph Labs?

65% of Dgraph Labs employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Dgraph Labs 3.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Dgraph Labs?

Software Engineer (16) , Senior Software Engineer (6) , Distributed Systems Engineer (3) , Backend Engineer (2) , Software Developer (2) , Software Engineer, Backend (2)

What are the pros of working at Dgraph Labs according to real employee reviews?

"You should expect a good salary to be offered." ((in 7 reviews)); "2) Good Colleagues" ((in 6 reviews)); "2. Awesome culture." ((in 6 reviews)); "The team has some seriously great engineers and they are always available for helping each other." ((in 5 reviews)); "1) Good Compensation & Benefits" ((in 4 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Dgraph Labs according to real employee reviews?

"incredibly poor work life balance." ((in 6 reviews)); "Management has no tech skills at all & do not participate in tech discussions." ((in 5 reviews)); "The founder was completely sidelined by the CEO and stopped coming to the management meetings." ((in 4 reviews)); "Massive layoffs with no warning and almost no severance pay." ((in 4 reviews)); "The company laid off almost 75 % of its employees in early June due to lack of funding." ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about Dgraph Labs redundancies in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Dgraph Labs redundancy and their outlook for job security at Dgraph Labs in 2026.

Dgraph Labs Reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)

Akon Dey

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Dgraph Labs has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dgraph Labs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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55 reviews

5.0

14 Aug 2019

Everyday at work is fun and something I look forward to

Backend engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

- Lot of flexibility on when and where you work from. - Very very few meetings and there is lot of time for building cool stuff. - Opportunity to solve hard distributed system problems. - Travel opportunities to conferences and other offices. - You get to contribute to open source on your day job, that's a dream come true. - Lots of big companies are using it Dgraph, so it's a great feeling to be able to build a software that works for a lot of people. - Lots of smart people to learn from

Cons

None that I can think.

5.0

27 May 2018

Open source work

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

* Attended conferences sponsored by the company * Build open source projects (badger, dgraph) * Flat organizational structure

Cons

* Sometimes work long hours when it's crunch time

5.0

25 May 2018

Challenging work with immense potential for learning

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

If you like to solve hard technical problems, then Dgraph is a good place for you. * Opportunity to contribute to open-source i.e. badger and Dgraph. * Work on a hard and fun problem i.e. building a distributed database using the latest technology (Go). * Opportunity to build a product that is already being used and tried by Fortune 500 companies. * Emphasis on doing code review which promotes peer learning. * Travel to conferences around the world and give/attend talks. I travelled to US, Singapore, China and India on trips sponsored by the company. * You are encouraged to present at local tech meetups in the city. * Opportunity to interact with the community and see the impact of your work.

Cons

Not much really, I would just suggest beer Fridays to celebrate the work done during the week!

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