I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Dropbox (Pittsburgh, PA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Met Dropbox at University Career Opportunities Conference, and was contacted that night for an on-campus interview for the next day. My interviewer was an alumni from my university and he asked me about courses that I was taking and TAing and about a couple of the projects on my Resume. And he then went onto ask my a programming question and continuously took down notes as I was explaining my solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Deduplication from a file system in any programming language of your choice
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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