Mediocre people and tooling, but good work life balance - werkgeversreview Software Engineer bij Docusign

3,0
14 sep 2020
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Pluspunten

Speaking only for engineering: the compensation, time off, and parental leave are generous. People work between 30-40 hours a week on a lot of dev teams. The product itself is useful, automates drudge work, and is good for the environment, so it's something I'm proud to be helping deliver. We're also very proud of our sites' security and uptime.

Minpunten

Speaking only for engineering: the organization is under-invested in tooling (prefers to re-invent the wheel badly than bother learning how to use industry standard open source tools). Doing the simplest programming tasks turns into days-long misadventures due to no serious will to pay down tech debt and lack of docs. We have slow release cycles like an old company. "Tenured" engineers tend to have a bunker mentality and hate other engineering teams the farther removed they are from them. People generally feel too far behind to put any serious effort into helping their teammates (varies by team). Companies acquired by DocuSign are often not gracefully integrated in engineering processes, and are often asked to adopt inferior practices to their own. Some people in operations work 50-80 hour weeks and work in a toxic atmosphere. People talk about diversity a lot but mostly hire white and Asian dudes. Women in engineering generally don't like working here.

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5,0
30 mei 2026
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Pluspunten

Great work life balance, good people, supportive culture

Minpunten

Not too much innovation development, Not too interested in in house ML/Ai features

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3w
Thank you for taking the time to share your positive experience with us. We are thankful for your insights and are happy to read your positive feedback.
2,0
9 apr 2026
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Pluspunten

Mostly nice people, dedicated to their specific roles.

Minpunten

Lack of team cohesion among departments. Lots of communication and accountability breakdowns, siloed efforts. Immature processes and undeveloped operations. Unqualified and ineffective leadership: I was to be the Business Process Lead but mid-interview, the hiring manager told me they would instead place me in a very small sub-department reporting into Finance Business Transformation. It was never clear if this was meant to be temporary or permanent... I was successful in facilitating and contributing to a project that was 10+ years overdue at Docusign. The managing director I reported to was laid off so a more tenured employee took over as "manager" who had never been in charge of people and it showed. Despite my contributions, I was told how little they valued my work and efforts on a successful project. Definitely a level disparity as I have been Sr. Finance Manager twice and head of a global department reporting into VP level and up. It appeared that all this new "manager" wanted was a subservient cog to condescend, demotivate, and talk down to. Beyond ridiculous to squander my 15 years of corporate experience.

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