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.
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Senior Software Engineer
I saw a posting on LinkedIn and applied through the Dropbox website. It took a few weeks before I received an email wishing to continue the process. I was given a CodeSignal question to complete within two weeks. I completed it at the start of week
Senior Software Engineer
For me, this was one of the best interview experiences I've had. The best part was probably the recruiters. Both the initial recruiter and the senior recruiter did a great job of facilitating the whole process. After scoring 1000/1000 on the online
Senior Software Engineer
I applied online. The process took five weeks. The recruiting process at Dropbox was one of the most disorganized I’ve experienced at a company of this size. It started with a heavily proctored CodeSignal test requiring camera, microphone, and full
Senior Software Engineer
Indianapolis, Indiana, United StatesDecember 1, 2020I saw a posting on LinkedIn and applied through the Dropbox website. It took a few weeks before I received an email wishing to continue the process. I was given a CodeSignal question to complete within two weeks. I completed it at the start of week
Senior Software Engineer
United StatesDecember 1, 2021For me, this was one of the best interview experiences I've had. The best part was probably the recruiters. Both the initial recruiter and the senior recruiter did a great job of facilitating the whole process. After scoring 1000/1000 on the online
Senior Software Engineer
May 2, 2026I applied online. The process took five weeks. The recruiting process at Dropbox was one of the most disorganized I’ve experienced at a company of this size. It started with a heavily proctored CodeSignal test requiring camera, microphone, and full
