Amazing Benefits, Boring Projects
Amazing Benefits, Boring Projects
- Competitive salary and stock.
- 6 months bonding leave (paternity or maternity).
- Great work-life balance, especially for people with kids.
Boring work -- Users don't really want new features, but Dropbox has thousands of employees who need to justify themselves.
The executives give impossible goals to the directors, who give ambiguous goals to the product teams, resulting in low accountability and a lot of turnover.
Shrink the company and just be a great file sync product with $2 billion per year in revenue. That's good enough. Stop trying to expand the product's surface area, because our users don't want it.
Additional Ratings
Was this helpful?
Dropbox Interview Questions
Dropbox Interview Experiences
Senior Software Engineer
Started with a technical assessment via CodeSignal, which was kind of uncomfortable. Monitoring by camera, microphone, screen share, ID upload, selfie, etc. A lot of work to keep someone in a high-pressure environment, but I think the standards are "
Senior Software Engineer
First was a Codility proctored exercise for 90 minutes. There were around 4 levels. The problem was that if you got stuck in level 2, you could not get to levels 3 and 4. The tool was not the best. I did not proceed further after a 600/1000 score.
Senior Software Engineer
Very pleasant interview experience. The process was pretty typical: * A conversation with a recruiter. * A technical phone screen. * An on-site interview, which was split over two days. This was nice in a way, but it also drew the process out.
Senior Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaNovember 22, 2025Started with a technical assessment via CodeSignal, which was kind of uncomfortable. Monitoring by camera, microphone, screen share, ID upload, selfie, etc. A lot of work to keep someone in a high-pressure environment, but I think the standards are "
Senior Software Engineer
Denmark, DenmarkOctober 21, 2025First was a Codility proctored exercise for 90 minutes. There were around 4 levels. The problem was that if you got stuck in level 2, you could not get to levels 3 and 4. The tool was not the best. I did not proceed further after a 600/1000 score.
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2025Very pleasant interview experience. The process was pretty typical: * A conversation with a recruiter. * A technical phone screen. * An on-site interview, which was split over two days. This was nice in a way, but it also drew the process out.
