Dropbox·Software Engineer

Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty standard sequence: solve a take-home coding challenge, then follow up with a phone screen where I had to work through a technical problem live on Zoom.

The take-home itself got me far enough to reach the call, but the phone screen ended up being where everything unraveled.

During the call, the interviewer seemed unprepared and even said they didn’t really know the problem, which meant I had to essentially guide how the question should be interpreted. On top of that, they didn’t provide test cases, so I couldn’t quickly verify my code as I reasoned through it. I kept asking clarifying questions about inputs and what they were expecting, and it took a long while before missing information finally came through. I eventually walked through my

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