Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

I went through an initial screening and a coding test, and then I was turned down due to criteria that weren’t really technical at all. In my case, I was told the role required more years of experience than I had, which made it feel like the mismatch should have been caught much earlier.

Another time, after a longer coding assessment, a week passed with no response and I followed up. The recruiter told me I didn’t have enough experience for the position.

I never reached the later stages, and the most disappointing part wasn’t the rejection itself—it was the sense that the process let me