Digital Realty reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(623 total reviews)

Andy Power

91% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Digital Realty has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 623 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Digital Realty employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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623 reviews
1.0
Jul 6, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

view from the boardroom, adobo jerky

Cons

lack of work life balance, lack of career development, lack of company identity, highly bureaucratic, plenty of deadweight, obsolete product.

1.0
Apr 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As a sales person the potential commission are huge. This is unfortunately mitigated by the comments below. It helps to get appointments with clients when you work for the largest data center company around, but this too is offset by the comments below.

Cons

As another person pointed out the culture of the company revolves around attempts at bullying and intimidation by management. They are well known in the business community where I work as unethical and manipulative in their dealings with both employees and clients. Management would fly into town to meet with clients to try and "close a deal" but mostly trying to claim credit for a sale while alienating both client and sales person with their incredible arrogance. Inevitably management caused the loss of more deals than they helped to win and when they caused the loss they would blame it on the sales person, typically in front of a room full of your peers. Finally, they had absolutely no problem with taking advantage of clients trust or lack of understanding to overcharge or provide poor contract terms. They would also routinely cheat sales people out of commission earned by pointing to clauses in the commission plan that basically allowed them to deny commission completely based on "management discretion".

2.0
Aug 25, 2014

Heading in the wrong direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large and highly visible, being with the company opens up many opportunities.

Cons

Micro managing and chaos is understated, it is complete chaos. The different assets are ran differently from building to building and sometimes conflict. As a customer in multiple sites, you will need to learn the different rules for each site even though the different data centers are located within the same city. There is absolutely no professionalism within the property teams as they speak badly about other sites as well as on other departments. The REM would tell her staff that her boss has no backbone and that he should be working for her and not the other way around. If you were to present new ideas on how to make the job more efficient, you would be told that this is nice but the processes that are in place are there because that is how it has always been done.

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