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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online through their job website. A few days later, I received a HackerRank challenge. This was followed by a phone interview with an engineer about a week later, and then an invitation to the on-site interview a week after that.

The on-site interview consisted of:

  • Three technical interviews
  • Lunch with an engineer
  • A demo session for some of their new products

The on-site lasted approximately from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

All in all, the interview process went really smoothly! All the engineers I spoke to were friendly and helpful in answering questions and participating in the problem-solving process. The problems were harder than average interview problems, but still fair and doable with standard Cracking the Coding Interview-type knowledge.

The only complaint I'd have is that I was told there would be concurrency and systems design problems during the on-site, neither of which actually ended up happening.

Questions

Implementing interfaces, dynamic programming/recursive backtracking problems, problems that could only be solved through bit-manipulation.

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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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