Awesome place to work! Company culture really improved since 2013
Awesome place to work! Company culture really improved since 2013
Awesome place to work! People are all very nice. Some amazingly smart people work at Dropbox: the creator of Python, a couple ex-principal engineers from Google, and some top competition coders from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc., just to name a few.
Internally, the culture and practices have really matured as well. There's a lot of investment in engineering tools and people development that didn't exist before. Three years ago, Dropbox was much less formal about this, and it meant that if you were passive, you might not get the feedback or opportunities you need to grow. These days, that's fixed with the company investing a lot in building up its people and helping them find the right opportunities that fit them.
I'm still very optimistic about the business. Dropbox's renewed focus on enterprise (while still supporting a best-in-class consumer product) is unlocking a huge revenue stream, and the team is laser-focused on building it right. Given recent revenue, the $10B valuation seems pretty fair.
- Still some growing pains, but overall the company has become much more mature!
- A larger company makes it hard to know everyone and develop empathy for other teams and their goals.
If you can sell the company for 20B, do it.
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The recruiter reached out to me via email with even a few time slots for a phone call in the first email, which is pretty efficient, to be honest. We set up some time and then discussed a few standard recruiter-round interview questions and what the
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United StatesAugust 1, 2018The recruiter reached out to me via email with even a few time slots for a phone call in the first email, which is pretty efficient, to be honest. We set up some time and then discussed a few standard recruiter-round interview questions and what the
