Dropbox reviews

3.9

67% would recommend to a friend

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Drew Houston

54% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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5.0
May 28, 2014
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Pros

The founders (Drew and Arash) are very accessible and highly engaged in the day to day operations of the company - as someone else pointed out, they definitely "walk the walk". One of the biggest benefits i've experienced has been the people - you truly get to work with insanely smart, talented people who are genuinely fun to work with - and this is the result of an intense hiring process that screens out a lot of great candidates. Office perks in SF are fantastic (particularly the world class food) and they're getting better at the remote offices. (Side note about remote offices - they are treated with the same level of importance as the SF office, we get tons of visitors, and people in SF make a point of keeping us informed about what's going on.) Compensation is generally in line with similar positions in the market, depending on role. The company is growing quickly (but responsibly), so there is ample opportunity to grow as new teams are being formed regularly.

Cons

The San Francisco office is a bit crowded right now due to rapid growth and the open seating plan; this can make it difficult (but not impossible) to focus on work. Although decisions at the founder level are very transparent to the whole company, some teams don't enjoy the same level of transparency from middle-management. Career path options haven't historically been very transparent, but that's been improving thanks to a massive recent push to improve learning and development.

5.0
May 23, 2014
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Pros

The culture is great. The people at Dropbox really care about doing right by their users, all the way to the very top, and it shows. You can sit down at a random table at lunch, introduce yourself, and meet some new people. And it's great that Dropbox's products make money by selling the product to the users -- it's not an advertising or data mining business model where there's a strong tension between what the users what and what the customers want. This means that while working at Dropbox, you can really focus on just making the best experience possible on products that are enormously popular. While Dropbox isn't really a startup anymore, the office environment is pretty fun, and it feels like they've done an excellent job of scaling up the business while still keeping a great culture. This wasn't the case a couple years ago, but Dropbox today is very family-friendly, a huge supporter of women in engineering, and an all-around great place to work.

Cons

Dropbox offers less vacation time than many of the other hot companies in the valley (though it offers more than the Oracles and Ciscos of the world).

5.0
May 20, 2014
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Pros

--Dropbox is constantly changing, open to adapting to new good ideas and changing course to keep on a winning track. I've worked a lot of places where senior leaders want you to sit down, shut up, and do your job - that's exactly the opposite of things here. There are so many opportunities to step up and help make things better. --I consistently find my co-workers to be unbelievably smart, incredibly driven, and entirely dedicated to company success over the long term. Everyone 'gets it' across the whole company, from sales to recruiting to engineering. It makes it fun to problem solve as a team. --We're working on some incredibly tough, highly motivating problems. Few companies deal with the amount of data and global footprint we manage and seek to expand on a daily basis. It's an exciting, big challenge, and invigorating every day. --The culture and company morale are outstanding, buoyed by a great team combined with delightful daily experiences like the Tuck Shop or awesome new Dropbox swag. It always feels like people are happy and excited to be here, and that sentiment is highly infectious.

Cons

--The constant change can be unnerving for some people, especially the change on the constantly reorganizing business / sales side. I enjoy reconfiguring as needed so we can best tackle the challenges ahead, but this can also lead to many feeling we lack of stability in daily processes or job responsibilities. Some people find the change overwhelming at times. --Dropbox is incredibly generous with benefits and equity, but a bit cheaper when it comes to annual salaries. It's still big-risk, big-reward over here, which does keep us all invested in winning big in the long term.

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