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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
Easy Interview
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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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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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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
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5&6 problem solve
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I Applied Online.
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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.
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"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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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Dropbox
Posted Oct 29, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 (took 2 days)
They gave me a C++ code and asked me to describe what it does
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