Unstabilized culture with not much opportunities and room for growth - Project Manager Dropbox Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good Benefits -Smart and friendly teammates -Food

Cons

-There is zero investment in career and personal development. No mentorship program, no rotations, almost no trainings/education programs, no coaching program etc. -Culture is not mature and stabilized. One single role change in the director or manager level completely changes that team's structure and culture. -You have to be close friends with management otherwise you are clearly being excluded. Managers behave differently to people who become close friends with them. It reflects to performance reviews and in time this situation starts to become a type of discrimination. -Product is nice but it doesn't have a competitive advantage against the other cloud storage solutions like Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, iCloud. So it doesn't feel like there is a bright future for the next 10 years. -HR is still very insufficient to create an equal opportunity environment and a stabilized culture that is built on trust.

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Dropbox Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are definitely in a hyper growth phase, so we know there is still a lot of growing to do, but we’re excited about the opportunity to make the way we work better. We do value the career pathing & growth opportunities of all Dropboxers, and are currently working on further developing the Learning & Development org.

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