Dropbox Reviews

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- Staying for a really long time makes you run into incompetent members of the leadership

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- Slow to make important product and strategy decisions. Makes decisions by committee, not by executive vision
- Certain teams have incredible influence despite very little actual influence on the business

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Food is too good, you get fat if you're not careful.

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Constant change can be negative for some

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Becoming a mature company. Not as much opportunity as there used to be, but prob still good relative to stable companies.

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Lots of problems to still solve, some would prefer the hard problems were solved already.

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- Stressful deadlines
- Competitive coworkers
- Strict bosses

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Unfortunately, being in a crowded market requires us to make product bets that often turn out to be dead ends or put pressure on backend infrastructure.

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can be a bit chaotic. Still feels like a fast-moving culture despite the size, but this can make you miss the stability

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Before applying to Dropbox it's important to understand the company's core competency is marketing and design, not software engineering. This is why, even though Box came before Dropbox and Dropbox has many similar competitors, Dropbox maintains the majority of mindshare and the lead in the consumer cloud storage space.

That being said, concerns of developers here are always weighed less than that of marketing and design. The developers are seen as replaceable and a cost center. In fact, everyone's Dropbox internal company profile has a counter saying "been here longer than X% of Dropboxers." After 3 months, it's over 10%. This isn't because the company is growing by leaps and bounds, but because their modus operandi is to burn out the software engineers and throw them away.

Given the marketing culture, this is the sort of place where you will be judged by what you wear and what brands you buy -- unusual for software engineers. If you don't have strong interpersonal skills or the desire to join cliques you won't make it here. Everything at Dropbox is about social status and branding.