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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 1, 2016
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Process

The interview process was really awesome. HR maintained constant contact and was super friendly.

I was referred, but I don't think that altered the process at all. It consisted of an online HackerRank coding challenge, a phone screen, and then an onsite with four technical interviews.

It's kind of unique that their coding challenge is a "best effort" kind of thing. You can do the easy/slow solution and get minimal points (I doubt it's good enough to move on), but it probably still feels better than totally flunking.

The phone screen was a bit harder, but the actual coding wasn't too difficult. The interviewer was much more interested in seeing how you handle edge cases and how you approach scalability.

The on-sites were difficult, and most of the questions were harder/more-involved versions of common LeetCode-type questions. Expect one question requiring detailed concurrency knowledge, and be prepared to explain how your algorithm can scale to larger datasets.

Questions

Multi-threaded token bucket algorithm

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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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