Dysfunctional engineering org turning worse every day. - Recensione dipendente - Senior Software Engineer presso DigitalOcean

2,0
30 nov 2017
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- The people team seems to be legitimately caring and trying to make a difference. - Remote culture - Good perks and decent salary for people outside NY

Svantaggi

-The engineering reorg was done in an awful way. Now each pillar (or better-said silo) establishes their own practices for pretty much everything. This leads to a lot of inconsistencies and mistrust. Because pillars don't currently talk, good luck trying to collaborate with other teams. - The level of the new hires is much lower than what it used to be. Now that each pillar controls their own hiring process, the mismatch between new hires in each pillar is huge. - Waterfall development everywhere, with no regards to any sort of technical discipline or standards. People do "sprints" and are "agile", but in reality, everything is done using Gantt-charts. And, of course like any other waterfall project, everything changes the last minute and people scramble to pull some heroics to duct-tape whatever may work. - Hero culture where a few individuals try to overcome all the structural problems by sheer bravery. These acts are even celebrated during the recognition part of the AMAs. This aggravates the culture of self-promotion that is the only way one can grow in this company.

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5,0
30 mar 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Solid engineering team, seems to have found a niche and is working it hard.

Svantaggi

Smaller company, so low in the prestige

2,0
18 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- lots of ownership - decent middle management - great teammates - learning a lot - older employees do tend to have competitive RSU grants and salaries

Svantaggi

- 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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