Dropbox·Software Engineer

Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience at Dropbox started with an online coding challenge and then moved into technical phone interviews.

After submitting the challenge, I had a call where I coded in my language of choice, and I was given time at the end to ask questions about the company. A separate phone screening sequence felt similar in structure—recruiter first, then a code-focused screen, and then progression toward the onsite.

The frustrating part was how differently the interviews treated the coding environment and my ability to think. In one phone screen, I tried to solve a problem I recognized as a pattern-related question, but I hadn’t reviewed it recently, so I started with a brute-force approach. The interviewer

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