DigitalOcean

Financial:

• Competitive pay
• Good personal computer perks, especially for remote
• 401k 4% match
• Personal budget toward learning/growth (books, conferences, courses, etc.)
• Paid travel a few times a year

Cultural:

• Most (all?) positions have remote options, and outstanding remote culture (more than half employees remote)
• If you're working in or visiting the office, it looks dope - the designers did some great custom work
• Regular AMAs with the CEO and other upper management (transparency)
• Focus on removing cultural bias in hiring process
• Strong engineering culture
• Minimal politicking (everywhere has some, but this is on the lower side)
• Well organized and welcoming

• Compared to the bigger cloud players, DigitalOcean is an underdog in many areas. Maybe a pro depending on your point of view, but it means comparable teams and projects are smaller.

• Rapid growth, which means growing pains due to reorganization, learning to scale. Some people are less excited about incoming changes, which causes friction.

Keep facilitating a culture of maximizing communication and transparency, as forgetting to be included tends to create or exacerbate the smaller issues.