Pros: Remote-First. High Pay. Good Benefits (but slowly being eroded).

Cons: Ineffective Upper Management Upper management believes in "grassroots" management, where no plans are made, no expectations are given, and no mandates are issued. ICs are expected to correctly guess what management wants and will play a guessing game for any/all initiatives. Teams are largely insular and hardly ever collaborate on company-wide solutions. No effort is made to orchestrate Dropbox at all. Until 2023, there were no company-wide yearly plans or goals beyond a couple of sentences. This is a rudderless ship. Lack of Ownership Upper management never holds any manager, org, or team responsible. Teams are able to shrug off responsibility and are protected by upper management. Undue burden is placed on other teams to make up this slack, but no effort is placed on improving the org structure to solve these issues. No Care for Customers Customers and problems affecting customers are largely ignored by Dropbox. Large amounts of effort are placed in making the employee experience better at the expense of the customer. Large-scale issues are swept under the rug until working hours, even if Dropbox customers are experiencing an outage or degraded performance. Due to the above lack of ownership, these problems are never addressed, and the owning teams are never made to fix them. I get paid by Dropbox for free and refuse to use the service as a customer.

Pros: - Decent compensation. - Top-notch benefits. - Remote-first culture. - Folks from L1 to L5 are pretty good; they are talented and kind.

Cons: - Leadership (specifically the new VPs of EPD, yes, we have new VPs for Engineering, Product, and Design) is clueless. - Core: Has nothing interesting to do, and the Engineering LT in Core has an extremely low hiring bar. - Dash: Talented people, decent LT, no idea how to make people pay for Dash. - Career growth is almost impossible, especially L4 onwards, unless you are buddies with the right people.

Pros: Great work-life balance and engineering culture.

Cons: Remote work is not for everyone.