I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Dropbox in Aug 2012
Interview
I got an initial phone call, and two phone interviews. The engineers are very friendly, they spend 20 minutes discussing with you before asking the question. However when you apply they want things to go very fast (so when they call you, they'd like you to have an interview within a week or maximum 2).
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You have a number of meetings (with their start and end times). You need to schedule them using the minimum number of rooms. Return the list of meetings in every room.
Design an LRU cache. It's a data struct with a capacity. Beyond this capacity the least recently used item is removed. You should be able to insert an element, access an element given its key, and delete an element, in constant time. Note that when you access an element, even if it's just for a read, it becomes the most recently used.
I applied online. I interviewed at Dropbox in Apr 2026
Interview
take home OA, two technical rounds, system design and wrap up call with hiring manager. Very transparent, recruiter is there for you describing process in detail, they really want you to get hired
I did OA and phone screen. During the phone screen, the HR did not ask too much questions about myself and mainly spent time talking about next steps. And then ghost me from there. This is not a good interview experience and a timely feedback or reject would be much better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe yourself and what is your goal in your new job
Initial coding exam with extreme difficulty, leetcode type exam with a time limit. After that you progress to an onsite interview with system design questions. The initial coding exam has about 3 multistep questions.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Dropbox with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 232 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Dropbox overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Dropbox as a Software Engineer according to 232 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 0%
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