DigitalOcean

• Initiatives that are deemed important get implemented quickly (fail-fast culture)
• Executive leadership team has a clear vision and presents a united front
• Company strategy tends to follow relevant industry trends, which makes your work feel valuable and exciting (this could also be seen as a con though, in the sense of lack of identity)
• Individual teams and engineers are given a lot of autonomy to solve problems

• It's taken a few years to stabilize after going public which has been a bit of a roller coaster, but this is less relevant to new folks joining
• For a cloud computing company, the amount of software which actually uses the cloud and/or is cloud native could be higher (this is improving and leadership agrees)
• Executive leadership can sometimes lean too far into the "customer-obsessed" strategy to the extent that employee empathy is sacrificed.

Winning and money are important for a business, but it isn't everything. Have empathy for employees and take a balanced, mature approach to company culture as DigitalOcean continues to grow.