DigitalOcean Reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(450 total reviews)
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Paddy Srinivasan

56% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

DigitalOcean has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 450 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DigitalOcean 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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450 reviews
5.0
23 Jan 2023

Great place to work

Recommend
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Pros

- Great culture easy to get along with - Great benefits - Comapred to larger cloud companies like AWS, there is a lot more to learn as not as many processes are automated so there is more responsibility and greater opportunities to learn - Travel - Flexible working hours - "Fellowship program" allows you to try another team out if that's what you're interested in. Manager is happy to do this

Cons

- As some processes are not yet automated, there are some processes that are inefficient - As this is an international company you will have to be ready to have early/ late meetings. However, they are aware of this and expect you to not over work yourself and have breaks and are very flexible with the working hours

4.0
3 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great culture + team + management - Good work life balance (at least after understanding the role and what's required) - Opportunity to travel and work on builds (but not too often which is good) - Learn a lot of sys admin / networking (esp if you've come from a full automated company like AWS)

Cons

- On call shift rotation, sometimes getting paged middle of the night for unnecessary things - Stopped hiring engineers (sys / network) in Sydney. Even if management wants to hire you, c-level will reject - Becoming overly corporate like AWS culture, but not at that point yet

5.0
12 Oct 2021

Great company

Recommend
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Pros

* Cares about their employees * Work/Life balance * Compensation and benefits * Employees are great to work with

Cons

I have yet to find one in the time I have been here. Management is supportive and great

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