I've worked happily at GoDaddy for years in Hosting and can say I don't get caught up in the politics. What's good is millions of customers and thousands of servers, which translates to plenty of development challenges. The performance of hosting these days is actually really good. In the past it might have been good or it might have been bad, just depended on whether you landed on an overloaded server or not. It was never our intention to overload servers, we simply grew faster than we knew how to maintain. Until we launched a performance team to tackle this issue, and now the performance is really good. Takes time for customers to recognize this. Performance is one of those things most people don't notice unless it's bad.
The company's history has a few blunders, but there is also a lot of good - millions donated to charities, thousands employed - creating jobs in a down economy, great benefits, and from the inside, I can say, customers come first. There has always been a do right by the customer mentality. For every poor customer support story, there are a hundred positive ones, untold. I've liked working at GoDaddy because the value of the product I help create is high. This is no rip off, everyone wins and I can be proud of who I work for.
The new CEO and new executive leadership team are leading a great new vision focused on helping small businesses kick-ass. It's really very moving and makes me proud to work as developer at GoDaddy.