Dropbox has some of the smartest — and nicest! — people around.
The company is growing rapidly, which means there are more interesting problems to solve and growth opportunities than there are people to solve them all. It's also a chance to see how things really work at a high-growth company; management is extremely transparent.
The problem space is well beyond simply file sharing at this point, and there are plenty of interesting new projects in development for product-focused folks. Our infrastructure challenges are second only to a handful of companies (like Google or Facebook), but we're getting to build that infrastructure from the ground up, with a chance to learn from those that have come before us.
For some folks, the constant change might be a con. Dropbox is growing incredibly fast, so everything that worked a year or two ago needs to be re-evaluated against higher scale.
I came in for an onsite tech screen, something that Dropbox offers for people who are interviewing locally. Two interviews back to back, both whiteboarding questions. The questions themselves were pretty standard, but the way I was treated in the in
After the resume screen, the second stage was a coding interview. I was asked one question related to recursion, specifically to find a duplicate file in a filesystem. This was conducted in a browser-based text editor.
Phone screens and a full day of onsite interviews. My phone screen interviewer was great. My interviewers onsite, especially for the coding questions, were horrible. The first interviewer asked me a question and kept restricting me, but when I ran o
I came in for an onsite tech screen, something that Dropbox offers for people who are interviewing locally. Two interviews back to back, both whiteboarding questions. The questions themselves were pretty standard, but the way I was treated in the in
After the resume screen, the second stage was a coding interview. I was asked one question related to recursion, specifically to find a duplicate file in a filesystem. This was conducted in a browser-based text editor.
Phone screens and a full day of onsite interviews. My phone screen interviewer was great. My interviewers onsite, especially for the coding questions, were horrible. The first interviewer asked me a question and kept restricting me, but when I ran o