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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Dropbox (San Francisco, CA)

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I would describe the interview process at Dropbox as relatively efficient and quick, not too tricky and somewhat personable but didn't give a strong sense of company culture. I was hoping to get a better idea of what the culture looked like but interviewers stayed pretty high level.

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OA2- Online copmuter tests. It had four stages, but not enough time. The questions were not super difficult but there was not enough time to solve them all. Design questions.

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Recruiter > hiring manager > homework presentation > 1 on 1 with the team assessing for role and team fit. The interview was fairly average in difficulty if you know what you're doing.

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Easy and convenient. Good conversations and follow up from the hiring team was very professional. It looked different for me because I had a connection. I have heard otherwise it’s a streamlined process.

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Dropbox (San Francisco, CA)

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Only one day of in-person interviews for the contract position. Nothing too stand out or difficult. Mostly concerned with my ability to write runbooks for and other processes like that.

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I connected with a recruiter that had reached out to me in the past. The intro call was pretty typical. I set up a phone screen for a technical interview . The technical interview was very unpleasant. None of the interviewers had their camera turned on and clearly were very inexperienced. I was interviewed by a junior engineer with maybe 1 year of experience and that person somehow was being shadowed by an intern. After the interview I heard absolutely nothing and never heard from that recruiter again. About 6 months later I got an email from a random person at Dropbox saying that the position was removed. It almost seemed like this was one of those fake job postings to give the false perception that the company is growing and hiring. I find it strange that this position would've stayed open for so long especially at a time when demand for big tech jobs is so high.

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  • Basic iOS question about image loading and handling asynchronous behavior and caching
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Multiple interviews with your perspective team and a pre-luminary round with the recruiter. Recruiters would answer emails at very odd hours such as after 10pm. It made me think that they regularly over work their full-time employees. My interview with the team consisted of certain employees meeting me in what was the equivalent of after 5pm in their region. When I asked what time it was for them they responded 8pm. I’m sure being forced to interview me outside of normal business hours did not contribute to a great first impression or high interest in me as a prospective intern candidate. Looking at other interview experiences on Glassdoor makes me think Dropbox has a lot of internal issues that they cover up with poor hiring methods.

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Recruiter disliked knowing candidates had other job offers (even though they asked you repeatedly) and tried to "softly" discourage me from proceeded with my interviews because of this information! After passing all three rounds of interviews with the recruiter, team lead, and two team mates. can honestly say that all of my interview sessions did not seem well thought out (recruiter was driving when she interviewed me) as many people had not taken more than five seconds to look over my resume and would cover it up by asking me if I had any questions. The people interviewing me seemed more concerned with getting a personality/appearance fit over my job skills. Very little team diversity beyond Caucasian/Asian team members. Had to reach out to them for a final response because they kept stringing me along saying they still hadn't received updates. AKA - Pretending like they did not have enough information to select a final candidate even after three interview rounds. Overall the entire process took two months and I can't say it was a good use of my time.

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  • Why do you want to work at Dropbox? What makes you passionate to wake up everyday and go to work?
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Dropbox in Apr 2023

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I had a fairly typical screener call after being emailed a few times. The questions were vague and focused mostly on my resume and various points from it. I answered some additional long-form questions via email and was told a day or two later that hiring managers were moving forward with other candidates. Had I continued, there would have been a more intense 4 or 5 part interview.

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  • Many of the questions were focused on my "0->1 product building" experience.
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They use a flawed automated tool (CodeSignal) which incorrectly evaluates candidates because it does not snapshot code submissions between challenges. Don't waste your time interviewing with them if they send you a CodeSignal test

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  • build a bank system (with levels that build upon the previous steps)
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Dropbox as 47.4% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.16 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Project Manager and Systems Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Contracts Analyst and Internal Communications Manager roles were rated as the easiest.

The hiring process at Dropbox takes an average of 20.02 days when considering 1,097 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Partner Sales Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).

Common stages of the interview process at Dropbox according to 1,097 Glassdoor interviews include:

Phone Interview: 39.02%

One on One Interview: 22.80%

Presentation: 11.15%

Group Panel Interview: 7.58%

Skills Test: 7.36%

Background Check: 3.57%

Personality Test: 2.51%

IQ Intelligence Test: 2.17%

Other: 1.95%

Drug Test: 1.90%

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