The Dropbox Coding Interview

What are people saying about Dropbox's Interview

PROS

Despite the stories, work life balance is reasonable
You learn to be a good engineer; even as an SDEI, I got good system design experience in owning a major feature
Interesting and challenging problems; easy to switch teams, lots of opportunities and flexibility within roles and teams

CONS

Projects can be cancelled or postponed, after a lot of effort put into it
Can be demanding; I had great performance reviews for 4 years, but with a new team where I wasn’t meeting manager’s expectations, I soon got put on a dev plan and ended up leaving soon after
Unequal promotion criteria across different organizations. Politics around reviews. The nature of engineering work in several retail teams is uninspiring.

What Dropbox employees have to say about interviewing?

“Dropbox employees face problems they don’t know how to solve on a daily basis. We’re looking to get a line of sight into a candidate’s thought process, what questions they ask along the way, and what other approaches they could consider. How a candidate thinks about a problem is as important as the answer itself.”

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What are people saying about Dropbox's interview?

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