Dropbox Senior Software Engineer reviews

Bad leadership, lots of reorgs

- Frequent layoffs, often poorly-communicated and executed. Really hurts morale and brand. Engineers I interview ask me if there will be more layoffs coming and whether they should look elsewhere. - Poor morale. Most teams I am working with are understaffed, projects were not cut after layoffs, people are burned out. - Lack of impactful and decisive company strategy, aside from just AI hype train stuff. - Lack of effective product leadership, particularly of 0->1 projects. We build lots of shiny, kinda klunky features, ship them without enough thought or engineering support, they don't gain traction (not surprising), and often we don't take the opportunity to think about what we could have done better before shipping the next novelty.