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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

November 3, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was good and consisted of 5 rounds:

  • 1 behavioral
  • 1 deep dive
  • 2 coding
  • 1 architecture

Most interviewers were very interactive and warm.

The recruiter was very responsive and set up the process pretty quickly in under a week's notice.

Questions

Q. Design an ID Allocator.

Q. Design a web crawler and consider multi-threading (single machine).

Q. Design a client-server synchronization protocol for Dropbox.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 204 interview experiences for the Dropbox Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%
Pass Rate

Dropbox's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral25%
Negative31%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Dropbox's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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