Interesting work and excellent benefits override the cons - Senior Engineer II DigitalOcean Employee Review

4.0
22 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

pre-ipo options were pretty generous. benefits are really great including bonus PTO days and easily scheduled open PTO policy. the work is genuinely interesting if you're interested in the cloud infrastructure space. bonuses have been good.

Cons

the product vision needs some work but that does seem to be getting better. it's grown significantly but it doesn't have the standards needed for a company with an engineering team the size it has. my biggest complaint would be compensation. compensation is always a trailing metric, raises are mediocre at best even for top performers and promos. salary is fine but it's not top of market. refresh stock/promo stock is insignificant compared to initial grant. since comp is a trailing metric and raises/refreshes aren't generous it's a toss up because the benefits kindof make up for the comp issues but it's not great.

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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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