Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

I got the first technical assessment almost immediately—four questions with about an hour and a half to complete everything. A few days later I was invited to a second take-home style technical assessment that was basically designing a text editor. Even though the problem itself didn’t feel conceptually brutal, the timebox of roughly an hour and a half made it stressful, and I kept feeling the clock more than I expected. Within a week after that, I ended up in a behavioral interview where the questions felt fairly standard.

What stuck with me about this process was how much of my energy went