Dropbox Reviews

Pros

- Everyone who works here is super smart, humble and kind. The recruiting team has done a great job maintaining that culture as we've grown.

- The perks are insanely generous, especially the food served in the Tuck Shop.

- We're working on interesting problems and thinking critically and empathetically about how to improve the way people get work done

- Especially in the younger parts of the company, there's still a lot of opportunity to build teams/processes/etc from scratch. Could be frustrating if you'd rather have all that figured out already, but if you enjoy that challenge you'll be happy here.

- If you care about work/life balance, you can definitely find it here.

Advice to Management

- Get serious about setting up processes that will help move work forward, faster.

- Don't be afraid to put a stake in the ground with your vision for the future of our product. If we can't commit to points of view around industry innovations, we'll get trounced by competitors who can.

- Empower employees to take more risks. The lawyers shouldn't be the ones running the company.

Pros

Benefits and pay are truly excellent. There are generous stipends for transit, wellness, learning and development (books and conferences), and others. Dental, vision, and health are all covered. There is donation matching up to a $1000 per year, unlimited volunteer and paid time off (which, if you're daring enough to request, truly seems unlimited—I have yet to hear of someone's PTO request being declined), and if you're in an office with a Tuck Shop, world-class food served every day. You can gift Dropbox space to friends and family.

The culture values kindness and open-mindedness to a fault, and teams are given massive autonomy to work and ship as they see fit. This means you can have very different experiences depending on your team and manager. This also means if you see something broken, you're generally given the OK to go and fix it if you have the will.

There are company events throughout the year, including team offsites (I've been hiking, on a cruise, to an escape room, and to countless dinners and happy hours), guest speakers, parties, etc. Dropbox seems to spare no expense on events and travel, although I've heard it was even more extravagant in the past.

Advice to Management

LEAD. Where are you? From down on the ground, seems like you've tapped out. Commit to a direction and see it through. Hold people accountable for results and set real deadlines. Fix the basics.

Standardize from the top down. We aren't a startup anymore, but we still act like one. We need standard platforms and processes across the org for project management, hard requirements for shipping, easily accessible analytics for *all* teams, and a continuous, direct line of communication with customer success so we understand the real problems that users are facing, not the problems we make up for our user personas to face.

Treat remote offices as first-class citizens. There's a lot of thrash that most likely goes unnoticed in SF. Check in to see how people are doing.

Pursue diversity more aggressively. And no, this doesn't mean just hiring more white women. We aren't doing well. Start with staff.

Pros

- Great attention to the inner workings of all processes, and to the underlying needs of employees
- Transparency and candor around key business objectives and results
- Care about employee buy-in to company strategy and future

Advice to Management

- Focus on giving lower level employees more channels to resolve their concerns (they should not be at the mercy of their leads, with little opportunity for change)
- Be more direct in communication, even if it's not what employees want to hear (i.e. policy/approach toward CW conversions)

Pros

innovative and upcoming if looking for excitement

Pros

Smaller company, impact of my individual work is magnified. Collaboration between teams is amazing. The leads care about my growth and are providing learning opportunities on a everyday basis. The gym in SF is a perfect size. Only a 5 min walk from the train station. Work life balance is recognized by leadership.

Pros

-Meals are the best part of working here, they splurge on food and happy hour
-Brand name company although quality of hires and work has declined in recent years
-Smart, fun coworkers

Pros

- Open and friendly work culture. A very inclusive and thoughtful work place where everyone can feel at home
- Very strong perks
- Competitive comp

Advice to Management

Don't worry about appeasing everyone. Learn to execute quickly, especially on near-term objectives. There's no need to overplan and do so much work about work

Pros

- Excellent company
- Got most things right

Pros

People and culture are as good as you'll find. Smart, motivated, largely apolitical.

Pros

Culture, people, benefits, opportunity for advancement