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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 27, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by the recruiter for a phone screen. I explained my approach and coded up the problem in 25 minutes, leaving a good amount of time for discussion and follow-up questions. I also performed a dry run of my approach.

Then the interviewer asked me a lot of questions on scalability and I/O operations related to the problem. I felt I had good insights and shared all the trade-offs of different approaches to solve the scalability issues.

I was very happy with how well I did in the interview, but the next day, I received a standard rejection email.

Questions

Leetcode medium.

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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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