Dropbox·Software Engineer

Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

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SwedenPosted Aug 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Right after I got pulled into the process, I ran into a timed technical test that felt like the main gate.

It was essentially a LeetCode-style exercise with a clock, and I could feel how much the details of the wording and constraints mattered. I tried to explain my approach in comments, but I still didn’t pass. It was frustrating because the rejection made it feel like performance and optimization were judged more strictly than my reasoning.

In another run, the timed test was again lengthy and stuffed with edge cases, and the tooling offered very limited debugging support. I chose the timed route even though there was an option for a phone interview, and I regretted that choice when it didn’t go

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