Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
Phone screens and a full day of onsite interviews. My phone screen interviewer was great.
My interviewers onsite, especially for the coding questions, were horrible. The first interviewer asked me a question and kept restricting me, but when I ran out of ideas, he did not even try to hint. The second interviewer had serious social issues.
Questions
Write a program to count how many times a web page has been accessed in the last 5 minutes.
Write a program that allocates and deallocates integers in the range of 1-1,000,000.
Implement a reader-writer lock using mutexes and/or condition variables.
Design question.
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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
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
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Dropbox's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Dropbox Work Experiences
- 5.0Chill place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 7, 2023Pros: - Very nice coworkers - Chill, stable company - Get to work on a cool product that people know - Interesting problems at scale, on certain teams - Lots of disciplines: product, platform, infrastructure, AICons: - Not too exciting - Technical debt - Stock is not growing - Execution issues
- 5.0Good Company, Bad LeadersSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJune 9, 2018Pros: - Excellent company. - Got most things right.Cons: Staying for a really long time makes you run into incompetent members of the leadership.
- 4.04 years at DropboxSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesDecember 28, 2020Pros: We have great perks and benefits. The culture is generally pretty good. Good growth opportunities if you are willing to put in the work.Cons: Dropbox has been shifting from startup-mode to steady-state company mode. This means things move slower and there's more bureaucracy.
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