Dropbox Software Engineer reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(204 total reviews)
avatar

Drew Houston

38% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

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

Reviews by job title

204 reviews
5.0
Jun 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very, very smart people (best engineering team in the valley!) - Lots of opportunity to improve the product - Very good at reacting quickly and nimbly to changes in market dynamics, etc.

Cons

- Growing this fast incurs a lot of growing pains (systems consistently break and then you have to fix them) - At times our focus is a little scattered

5.0
May 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Dropbox is a company that's growing like wildfire, and with that comes opportunities to grow your career. We're laying the foundation, both technically and culturally, for years to come, and we all have an opportunity to make an impact. This is especially true in New York, where we're building the company's first remote engineering office. I feel that the company headquarters in San Francisco supports us and is empowering us to succeed. Across the company, I've worked on meaningful projects with incredibly-smart people.

Cons

Work-life balance is a tricky thing at a company that's doing so many different things and growing in so many different directions. Dropbox has (to great benefit) been stingy about hiring, but it means that there are fewer people to do more things. Work-life balance is certainly respected, but I find myself sometimes struggling to disconnect, though that may be me more than Dropbox.

5.0
May 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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).

Viewing 199 - 201 of 204 Reviews

Glassdoor has 1,841 Dropbox reviews submitted anonymously by Dropbox employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Dropbox is right for you.