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Updated May 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Dropbox
Posted May 16, 2012
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took a day)
The recruiter called and helped set up a technical interview over the phone. The question is actually easy and a CS student will learn that in their first year in college. However, because it is very easy and very fundamental, any error you made will be fatal, and that is exactly why I failed.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Human Resources at Dropbox
Posted Apr 19, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 4+ weeks)
My interview began at 10:30am and did not end until roughly 4:00pm. I met with 7 or 8 people over the course of 5 and a half hours. With the exception of 1, I felt the interviews went extremely well. That being said, I was given 1 small water bottle to last the entire 5+. I was never offered any lunch or food or even additional water to refuel. As a recruiter myself, this was a terrible candidate experience. It is common courtesy to have the interviewee attend lunch if your interviews go over the lunch hour. In my case 10:30-4 would absolutely qualify as "going over the lunch hour". Towards the end of my interviews, I was completely drained and my final interviewer was somewhat arrogant (or perhaps I was just irritated due to starvation!). He asked me to solve some math related problems - basic ratios (if you need to hire 10 people and your candidate go through xyz status with x% making it through to the next round, how many resume do you need to present?). As a recruiter, I do not feel this is a relevant question. However, it would have been fine in the early stages of my interview - not after 5+ hours without food or water. I was not provided with a single email address to send follow-up thank yous nor do I have my coordinator's contact info to check the status. All-in-all, I took an entire day off of work to interview here and still have not heard from them regarding my candidacy. Obviously, they did not want to move forward with my but I would have at least liked a "thanks for your time but....." email/phone call. I enjoyed meeting everyone and I do like the company. As a recruiter, I take great pride in providing candidates the best possible experience regardless of whether or not we go to offer stage. Dropbox definitely needs to do something to enhance the candidate experience. This was possibly one of the worst.
Interview Questions
20% of the resumes you present are approved for phone screen
20% of your phone screens are approved for onsite interviews
20% of your onsite interviews are extended offers
50% of your offers are accepted
You need to hire 10 people, how many resumes do you need to present
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
I applied online and got called up by an HR woman not long after. I had to do a few phone interviews and they all went very well. I'm very experienced in what I do and it was soon made clear by my interviewers that they were very impressed and wanted me to get me on board asap. I had to go to their office in SF for a last live interview. The guy that had to interview me was arrogant, didn't listen to me and clearly didn't want to invest too much time or effort. I got the impression I wasn't 'cool' enough and the interview was over before I knew it. Soon after I got an email that I wouldn't get hired. I am really insulted by their way of hiring people. Never before have I seen such unprofessionalism. I guess some people at Dropbox are just too young to be making decisions and some people are in the wrong place.
Tip: know your stuff and THEN be extravagant, get noticed, "develop your cool" before you go. Jeans and blue shirt is too common to get accepted. Or don't bother at all. They're obviously looking for someone special.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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IT Administrator at Dropbox
Posted Mar 12, 2012 — 2 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 1 week)
I got an email from the recruiter asking when I'd be available to schedule a phone interview. I gave her my availability and we scheduled it for the week after, she told me who would be calling and the date and time. Beforehand I read reviews about other Dropbox interviews and I got an overall negative impression of their interview process but mine was pretty bad compared to others. I have to say that this was hands down the worst interview I've had. The interviewer called me 30 minutes late - although, he did apologize - didn't introduce himself or anything, just went straight into it. He asked me if I had any questions about the position and I asked him to give me more background on it, like what kind of environment they have, if there's more than one IT staff member. His answer was short he just said that they have 2 people doing IT support and they needed another person and he proceeded to ask me questions. He asked strictly technical questions and one situational, no personality questions whatsoever. It's understandable that they want someone who knows what they're doing, but I felt like I knew the interview was over before it even started. I didn't know the answers to most of the questions but it was the best that I could do. After he asked me a handful of technical questions, he said "okay, that's it, thanks." and that was it! The whole interview couldn't have been more than 10 minutes, like I said I knew it was over before it started and I felt like I wasted a whole hour making time for it. Got the rejection a few days later, although I'm kind of surprised they didn't send it earlier.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Support Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Mar 6, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 6 days)
My telephonic interview was scheduled with one of the support team member. He stated off giving a brief information about what he does and then he asked me about myself. After that he just asked a very basis question about support and I was able to answer it without any hesitation. With support role it's not about being right or wrong but then how you act in a particular situation. He asked a few more basic support questions other than what was written in my resume which I wasn't really expecting but still. The interview went well and we spoke for almost 30 mins. I was really hoping to receive another call but then a few days later I received those standard emails saying thank you for applying but we are looking for someone else. I even tried to follow up for a feedback but then I never received any.
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Technical Support Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Feb 20, 2012 — 2 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
I applied for the position and got the feeling they were very excited and that I was a very good candidate for the job. I had to do several interviews by phone and they all went very well. After that they invited me to come to their office in San Francisco for a live interview. I went over there and they had arranged several interviews for me. The first few interviews went very well. The people I spoke with were friendly. I noticed that I was more experienced than several employees and some of them were working there on their first job. The last interview however was with an engineer that had been working there since the start of Dropbox. He was very 'cool', distant and in my opinion even a bit arrogant. Not at all how all the other people had treated me. I easily noticed from the people around me that he made them very nervous. He gave me the task to solve a few questions out of a total of 20 which were on his laptop. I could choose which ones I wanted to answer but by the time I had read through the questions he told me I only had a few minutes left since he forgot to tell me it was a timed assignment. I managed to do only a few of them since the questions were really hard and could not be answered quickly. Some were even in Korean or Japanese.
When the time was up he quickly closed the laptop in front of me and took off. The person from HR came in right after that and said that I'd get an answer in the next two weeks after a group decision. I was pretty confident that I'd get the job since I was better than some of the current employees (and without being arrogant: some of those employees clearly realized that when interviewing me) and since I had a perfect profile for the job. Only the last one wasn't a success but I didn't think they'd hold it against me since I wasn't told from the start that it was timed and you would already have to be experienced at working at Dropbox since the questions were very specific to the product.
I got an email the next week saying they would not move forward at this time. No further details were given as this appears to be their policy, not in the least to avoid lawsuits I presume.
All in all a missed opportunity for both me and Dropbox since I would have loved to work there. I look at it as mainly their loss since I started working at Facebook a few weeks ago. And FB doesn't hire you unless you're really good at what you do, so go figure...
My advise: stay away from these clowns. Most of them are very friendly but it seems that the higher up the ladder, the more arrogance you'll find. It's a pity for such a fine startup with less than 100 employees to be in such a HR disaster already.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Feb 13, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Email inteview for 6 questions:
1&2How do you hear about Dropbox ;Why you want to work with us and you plan
3.State a experience about how you solve a technical problem, be specific about the diagnose and process
4.?
5&6 problem solve
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I Applied Online.
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Office Administrative at Dropbox
Posted Dec 20, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Applied online and got an email shortly after to schedule a phone interview. Phone interviewer was very friendly and responsive. Asked generic questions about my background and personal interests. I was invited to come to the office for an in-person interview the week after. The interview took place in one of their conference rooms and I was interviewed by two people on the admin team. They were not prepared and the conference room was not booked so they took me to another unoccupied one. One of them ran late and didn't come in until halfway through. Their demeanor was a bit condescending and one had a smirk on their face the whole time and kept looking elsewhere. It was pretty uncomfortable, to say the least. After the interview was over, they never contacted me back despite my attempts to contact them.
A few weeks later, I was contacted by a recruiter regarding another position. She said I looked like a good fit for the role and I told her I was interested. A day later, she emails and states that she didn't realize I had come in before to interview and that she would consult with my interviewers. Two days after that, she emailed again saying they would move forward with other candidates. Three months after that, the second role was still listed on their website.
Other friends have interviewed there and we all came to the consensus that they base their decisions on personality and culture fit, rather than qualifications. So basically, if they like you then you're in. And if they find some superficial reason to not like you after only one hour of meeting you, then too bad; you're blacklisted forever.
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Technical Support Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Nov 3, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
First, I applied online and 4 hours later I was emailed by the recruiting team to fill out a questioner which took about 6 hours to complete. After that I was emailed again and a phone interview was scheduled. The 1st phone interview took about 30 minutes. It was great. A week later I was emailed again for another phone interview. The 2nd phone interview was simply bad. The guy that I was talking to was not professional, he did not listen to what I was trying to say and he just kept interrupting. Right at that moment I knew that I was not going to get hired. Few hours later after the 2nd phone interview I got an email that they will not hire me. From my point of view, please dont get your hopes up even though you know your stuff such as OOP.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Nov 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
The interview was an hour long and two employees watched over me. The whole process felt awkward and poorly prepared. First the interviewers were about 20 minutes late to the interview, and I found it difficult to build a rapport with either interviewer. They did not spend anytime with pleasantries or looking over my resume they dove straight into a skills test.
Interview Questions
"1" -> "11" //this can be thought of as there is one one.
"11" -> "21" // there are two ones
"21" -> "1211" // there is one two and one one
"1211" -> "111221" ect. //there is one one, one two and two ones
"1211" could be interpreted as one two and one one || one hundred and twenty one ones.
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