Company details

San Francisco, CA

HEADCOUNT

3000-9999

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.docusign.com

About the company

DocuSign sells eSignature and broader agreement workflow software, including its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform. The company’s products help organisations prepare, sign, manage, store, and analyse agreements and related data. DocuSign serves a wide customer base from small businesses to large enterprises and public sector teams, with usage across legal, sales, HR, procurement, and operations. The company operates globally and competes in the e-signature and agreement-technology market.

Locations and presence

DocuSign’s corporate headquarters are in San Francisco, and DocuSign reports additional offices across the U.S. and internationally across Europe, Asia, Latin America, Israel, Egypt, and Australia. DocuSign reports operating a hybrid model where most employees have flexibility to work from home, and many roles are labelled as in-office, hybrid, or remote in job postings.

Palpable Score

72.0

/ 100

DocuSign offers a credible early-career entry point through a structured summer internship experience and ongoing university hiring, with strong program scaffolding (cohorts, mentoring, coaching, and community). Hiring transparency looks mixed: candidates can expect multi-stage interviews, but the number of rounds and timelines can vary by team. Pay looks market-aligned with equity and benefits, while early-career outcomes are harder to verify because DocuSign does not publish intern conversion rates or early-tenure promotion and retention metrics.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

15.8

/ 20

The company runs a 12-week Summer Intern Program with cohort start dates aligned to academic calendars and a defined support system (recruiters, mentors, coaches, and employee groups).
DocuSign maintains a dedicated “University & New Grad” pathway that bundles internships and full-time new grad opportunities rather than leaving graduates to hunt through general listings.
The company posts intern roles across multiple functions (for example engineering, finance, legal, and strategy/analytics), which supports broader entry-level access than engineering-only internships.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.2

/ 20

The company’s interview experience data shows candidates commonly go through structured stages such as phone screens, one-on-ones, panels, presentations, and skills tests, which sets a baseline expectation of what “the process” looks like.
DocuSign candidates report processes that can extend across several weeks, which can be manageable when communicated well but becomes difficult for students juggling competing deadlines.
The company has evidence of wide variation in interview depth (including reports of up to seven rounds in some cases), and that variability reduces predictability for early-career applicants.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.1

/ 20

The company’s internship program write-up lists concrete support mechanisms: regular office hours, dedicated Slack channels, recruiter check-ins, personalised career coaching, panels and presentations, plus stipends for technology and event lunches.
DocuSign reports formal “Talent and Career Development” resources for eligible employees, including career development coursework, frameworks, and education assistance, which supports learning beyond onboarding.
The company highlights learning infrastructure in public benefits-style listings such as education assistance (including a stated annual amount) and internal learning programs referenced as “DocuSign University” on third-party employer profiles.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.0

/ 20

The company includes location-based base salary ranges on many U.S. job postings, with separate ranges for states like California and Washington and notes about bonus, equity, and benefits eligibility.
DocuSign describes compensation packages as including base salary plus bonus or commission and equity awards, alongside health, savings, retirement, time-off, and wellness benefits that vary by country.
The company’s early-career pay visibility is still uneven because internship compensation is not consistently published on first-party listings, so candidates often rely on third-party datasets (hourly intern estimates and salary aggregates) to benchmark offers.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.9

/ 20

The company has mixed progression sentiment in large review aggregates, with “career opportunities” scoring notably lower than work-life balance, which suggests advancement can depend heavily on team and timing.
DocuSign has had repeated workforce reductions in recent years (including a restructuring plan announced February 6, 2024 that included an expected ~6% workforce reduction), which adds uncertainty for early-tenure stability.
The company is also investing in growth areas such as AI R&D in Europe (including a Dublin AI Centre of Excellence expansion plan tied to engineering headcount growth), but DocuSign does not publish early-career outcomes like intern conversion rates, early-tenure retention, or time-to-promotion benchmarks.

Useful links & resources

DocuSign University & New Grad (Students)DocuSign blog: Summer Intern Program overview (mentoring, cohorts, coaching)DocuSign early-career roles (Accel jobs board mirror)

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