I had an initial call with the technical recruiter.
After that, there was an online code screening. I only completed half of it and didn't get a further interview.
The online code challenge was frustrating because you couldn't move on to further steps with any failing tests from prior parts. I had an issue with my secondary (tie-breaker) sorting on the second part, where it was still very easy coding work. Since I was not used to working with the online IDE, and they don't really let you look anything up, I was pretty stuck. In real life, with the internet or a normal IDE that does type-checking, that would've been an easy fix to spot. But I was locked out of most of the test because of that.
The recruiter was super nice, though, and encouraged me to apply again in 6 months.
The coding challenge was timed online and about working with a filesystem. It contained problems like getting filenames that matched the given prefix and sorting them by a given frequency and then alphabetically.
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Dropbox Software Engineer II role in United States.
Dropbox's interview process for their Software Engineer II roles in United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Dropbox's Software Engineer II interview process in United States.