DocuSign Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Excellent C suite leadership Great benefits I truly feel cared for

Cons

Limited growth opportunities in some areas Starting to feel big, losing some of that open minded, free thinking culture, getting political at times Work/life balance is difficult but that has a lot to do with remote working

Pros

Great benefits. Work Life balance. Senior Leadership

Cons

Low 401k match. No path to promotion

Pros

Culture: DocuSign has an extremely supportive culture that is generated from the top down. The executive leadership, like most companies, gives plenty of lip-service to a desire to have happy employees. DocuSign is one of the rare businesses where leadership follows through on that desire. In just the last year, during COVID, we've had a couple of impromptu employee appreciation holidays. We've had multiple rounds of funding for building out WFH infrastructure which has made the COVID experience a bit easier. During the summer, our leadership stood firmly with BLM. One example was giving employees Juneteenth off as a company holiday. This was an impressive acknowledgement of the duality of American history by celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the same way that we celebrate our independence from Britain. This, along with a number of different workshops and guest speakers centered around understanding bias and diversity demonstrate a firm commitment to creating an inclusive culture. It seems like every company-wide discussion has a section committed to our various diversity and inclusion initiatives. Career Growth: DocuSign is growing quickly. Whether it is through new products / acquisitions or entering new markets, there are a lot of opportunities to develop new processes and learn new skills and compliance frameworks. Compensation: Above average as is typical of the tech industry. Other benefits, such as the fitness equipment stipend, have made the COVID experience much more manageable. The key is that work-life balance is attainable in DocuSign. Leadership is committed to employee welfare, of which work-life balance is a key component.

Cons

There aren't many downsides specific to DocuSign. The rapid growth of products, acquisitions, and markets has certainly been challenging to keep up with. Despite the challenges, as stated above in the pros section, the rapid growth has created plenty of opportunities for professional growth.

Pros

Work life balance is great

Cons

Working from home long term at the moment

Pros

DocuSign is very empathetic and provides employees with work life balance emphasis. Releases are also very slow, so there isn't much stress in trying to deliver in a timely manner. DocuSign engineering is also very political - so it is also very easy to dodge work by playing politics. It's a great place if you are looking for a 10-5 job, don't care about technical growth, and make a career out of politicking with other B-player engineers and managers. The stock is also doing well, so you can expect something cushy if you do end up working there.

Cons

As I read through the 5 star reviews from engineering, I can't think of how DocuSign can seriously be a 5-star place from an engineering perspective. The tech stack is severely outdated and everything is monolithic. All the main services have different release cadences which makes it a nightmare to release new features and bug patches in a timely manner. There is also a very silly "change request" form and a "release form" that need to be filled out and ironically are done through the DocuSign product that gate the release process. I found this to be very ineffective, as these forms usually took a long time to be approved, and didn't stop the number of fires and rollbacks on a frequent basis. As another reviewer also has mentioned - DocuSign believes in reinventing the wheel when it comes to tooling. Everything from deployment tools, monitoring, test automation, feature flagging, and other infrastructure was done through poorly written home grown tools. It's a joke how any engineer can grow their technical skills here - personally speaking, I spent more time politicking in meetings than coding, which is why I regret having been at DocuSign for so long. DocuSign engineering also has a culture of blame. Instead of solving problems together, people have this bunker mentality to blame other teams or individuals for fires rather than actually work together to prevent these things from happening. It goes to show how silly this place is. I recommend only coming here if you are looking for work life balance above everything else, if you want to do your engineering career a favor, look elsewhere.