Drowning in the Ocean - Recensione dipendente - Engineer presso DigitalOcean

2,0
3 mag 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Remote-first company Small stipend to cover home internet Teammates are bright and dedicated and willing to share their knowledge

Svantaggi

Most teams have been completely decimated due to poorly executed layoffs. A significant amount of institutional knowledge has left and those roles are being replaced with junior engineers from overseas, and the knowledge transfer for these new roles is moving slower than anticipated. As a consequence of this, there has been a significant rollover and change in C-level leadership as career professionals are resigning to move to new roles. There is a lack of accountability at a leadership level for decision-making. CEO regularly tells people that "if we don't believe in the leadership team, that we should look for other jobs". Travel/Professional Development dollars do not exist for individual contributors, and promotion paths for most, if not all, roles have been eliminated.

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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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