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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

July 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview: The question was to find all duplicate files in a file system.

Follow-up questions included:

  • What if files are large?
  • What if files are small?

The interviewer was kind of indifferent.

Questions

Asked how to find duplicate files in a file system.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 57 interview experiences for the Dropbox Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

18%
Pass Rate

Dropbox's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive56%
Neutral18%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Dropbox's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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