Successful company, great people, can be hard to find your path
Successful company, great people, can be hard to find your path
I liked my day to day work while I was employed at DigitalOcean.
The people were great and there were some interesting things to work on. I worked on one of the compute product teams and there was plenty of opportunity to think from the users' perspective (e.g. how they would deploy code to it) and the back end's perspective (e.g. how we would scale to the users' deployed workloads and have good observability).
Unfortunately, there were many products in the lineup at the time I joined and some were given less priority than others. It was like the company was still trying to find its overall direction. I think they overhired for my team, not realizing they'd switch focus from my team's product to other ones.
This led to me being laid off. I got generous notice and severance though.
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United StatesDecember 2, 2020The interview process was a bit long, but I felt like every part of it was necessary. Everyone was kind and accommodating, open, and willing to answer questions. Overall, it was a really good experience.
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CanadaSeptember 1, 2022Team was flexible and interview process went smoothly. One interviewer asked for very tricky questions that just tested my ability to remember technical trivia, but all of them were friendly, approachable, helped me feel comfortable, and the intervie
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MexicoAugust 1, 2023I think in general it was pretty straight forward, everyone was extremely nice and attentive with my questions. I think the questions were of the right difficulty. I had to wait a while for an offer, but apart of that, it was pretty fast.
