Dropbox Software Developer reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(204 total reviews)
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Drew Houston

38% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Dropbox with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 204 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Dropbox is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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204 reviews
5.0
Dec 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

After working at other major/top silicon valley companies, Dropbox is definitely the best company I've worked at. The level of technical talent here is better than pretty much any other company (and Dropbox maintains a high hiring bar to make sure that it doesn't drop). This provides a lot of opportunity for learning and means that I can fully trust my coworkers to produce excellent work. I also get a lot of control over what I work on and how it should be implemented. My manager/PM are always open to suggestions on how things should work from the technical to the product level, and I don't usually have to go through them anyway. Work/life balance is great. I don't work weekends at all and I have yet to go above 50 hours a week (not including meals at the office). Compensation is on par or better than any other company in SV and the perks are great (best food of any tech company!).

Cons

The company is still growing very quickly which means that a lot of the processes aren't as set in stone as they are at larger/more stable companies. This means that when trying to do certain things, no one really has a good idea of how to go about it (e.g. compensation reviews were only standardized relatively recently). This doesn't actually affect much in practice, however, as everyone I've met is more than wiling to work with you to make sure things are made right.

5.0
Dec 12, 2014

Good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Management is good at identifying weaknesses in company culture/policies/direction and making changes. Very little dogma. Extremely strong team, I'm constantly impressed and occasionally intimidated by how smart and effective my co-workers are.

Cons

There are a lot of growing pains. We've only had a year where we couldn't fit the whole company onto a single floor or a building, and there was a lot of communication we took for granted that doesn't happen anymore, especially between product/engineering and sales/support/marketing

5.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Dropbox is full of talented people with the freedom to express their talents. People have a lot of freedom to choose which projects they work on and how they work on them. And that culture extends throughout the company. The perks and benefits are good, and people use them. Free food is the norm in tech these days, but what Tuck Shop turns out is unlike anything I've seen at any other company. Actually, that doesn't do it justice. The Tuck Shop turns out food that can go toe-to-toe with any trendy SF restaurant you can name. Or you can always get a sandwich, a burger, pizza, or salad, if you're of the less adventurous type (but what's the fun in that?) There's also a slew of other benefits: health/vision/dental, 401k match, donation match, commuter benefit, cell phone, gym (both on-site w/ free laundry and a $100/month subsidy for an outside gym), basically, you name it, Dropbox has it. The culture embraces the fact that people work better when they have breaks, so people actually use their vacation days. And people work pretty flexible hours.

Cons

The pace of growth brings some problems. For one thing, everyone has to spend a lot of time interviewing potential new Dropboxers. For another, growth means every week there are more desks and fewer marginal spaces (e.g. couches) until we get more office space, and the people you're sitting next to today are unlikely to be the people you're sitting next to two months from now. Also, to make the freedom work, there are a lot of meetings.

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