Good people, atrocious C-suite - Sr. Manager IT DigitalOcean Employee Review

1.0
20 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People there were great, hardworking, smart and kind. Good compensation and perks.

Cons

Absolutely cannot trust leadership, mainly C-suite as they do as they please, if someone gives a voice against they will be silenced. I was part of layoff in Feb and it was so crushing experience to be just cutoff without even given a chance to say goodbuy to your own team. Just cut suddenly without any warnings. Even if just month before the sentiment given was exact opposite. Promises were made, but in the end not honored. It is sad they made their own values meaningless with 1 swoop. They spent cash buying other companies, are profitable and were in good pace. Layoffs were not a necessary action. However they are buying their own stock back. This was pure greed play, nothing more. Love as a value is just a bad joke. All this is public information as well.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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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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