Dropbox Software Engineer interview experience

The assessment was structured as multiple levels, and I could tell early it was testing more than simple coding—there were features layered on as I progressed. I reached level three ideas involving payments with a 2% cashback where the cashback was rounded down and deposited after 24 hours, and I had to account for the timing and ordering of cashback effects before completing payments and transfers.

In the middle of it, I hit time trouble and didn’t finish everything I wanted. I could feel my scores slipping as the rounds got more complex, but I also remember seeing that I’d still earned