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Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 29, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online and received an email from a recruiter with a link to a coding challenge.

I ended up not finishing the coding challenge in time and was rejected.

Questions

Grid Illumination: Given an N x N grid with an array of lamp coordinates. Each lamp provides illumination to every square on its x-axis, every square on its y-axis, and every square that lies on its diagonals (think of a Queen in chess). Given an array of query coordinates, determine whether that point is illuminated or not. The catch is: when checking a query, all lamps adjacent to, or on, that query get turned off. The ranges for the variables/arrays were about: 10^3 < N < 10^9, 10^3 < lamps < 10^9, 10^3 < queries < 10^9.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Dropbox Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Dropbox's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive22%
Neutral22%
Negative56%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Dropbox's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

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