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      Great work environment, amazing benefits, slightly below average salary - Systems Administrator DigitalOcean Employee Review

      4.0
      Oct 28, 2014
      Systems administrator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - You'll work with some really great talent here, and you'll have no shortage of brilliant minds to bounce ideas off of. - The CEO is easily approachable, and he clearly has your best interest at heart. - Commuter benefits like no other - they'll pay some or all of your commute costs, including a free monthly unlimited metro card on top. - Free lunches! Corporate Seamless account and pizza fridays! - Amazing, low-cost health insurance for the whole family, 100% coverage of employee's costs covered and 50% of premiums covered for family members. - Relaxed work environment and atmosphere.

      Cons

      - Sometimes there are conflicts with instructions received from multiple higher-ups. - Slightly less accessible since the move

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      5.0
      Mar 30, 2026
      Senior performance engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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
      May 18, 2026
      Senior software engineer
      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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