Used to be a good company, long time ago - Senior Software Engineer DigitalOcean Employee Review

2.0
13 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very few left. Work life balance is still almost ok, but recent changes are pushed massively against these values.

Cons

I've been at this company for several years to see it degrading from an awesome company to a place that I dread, spiralling down into a toxic environment where hate against your peers is not only unpunished but encouraged. In the last weeks alone several amazing engineers with ton of experience and environmental knowledge left, and they literally said "anyone's free to leave". Well, yes, but that's not exactly what you want to hear from someone who cares about their teams. About diversity: the leadership team is now only males, all belonging to the same culture. I'm wondering about the hiring process there, in fact I have strong doubts there was anything fair at all.

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5.0
30 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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