Remote Done Right - Senior Software Engineer DigitalOcean Employee Review

5.0
4 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Best remote culture of any company out there - Managers give you the tools to succeed and empower you to make decisions - Everyone is super friendly and helpful, and people truly enjoy working here - Minimal meetings - Diverse culture

Cons

- Meeting times can get tricky with teams being so timezone distributed - Slack can be noisy with all the team channels and interest group channels

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DigitalOcean Response
8y
Thanks for the great feedback. We see our distributed model as a competitive talent advantage and I'm glad the experience is working for you. And I hear you on Slack - we'll work on better separating the signal from the noise (except for the #puns channel. That's obviously amazing).

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