Pros: Benefits, growth environment, support, learning.

Cons: Can be super fast-paced or slow, dependent on the team.

Pros: Dropbox has great talents, top-tier compensation, a fully remote environment, and large-scale challenging problems for engineers. Above all these, the work-life balance is unbeatable.

Cons: While Dropbox has a stable business and customer base, it is still fighting hard to find its second hyper-growth product. Some teams (especially product teams) may need to pivot quite frequently to find the right direction.

Pros: The engineering team is some of the best people to work with that I've ever met. The team isn't just smart people; the company does a great job of selecting people who will be able to work well with others. For an engineer, it's a fun place. They've got a range of really exciting technical problems to solve. And when you solve them, you get to see people actually use what you built. The company is built as an actual business. The management has been carefully building a sustainable, long-term business. They provide a valuable service, which people are happy to pay for. They've got a good plan for how to continue and grow the business.

Cons: A shocking amount of abandonware exists in the technical stack. Senior people are strongly encouraged to have side-projects in addition to their primary work, but they aren't given time to support them. Therefore, there's a lot of widely used code implemented by trusted people, which is completely unsupported.