Pros
Dropbox REALLY cares about it's employees: - Company shuts down 1 extra day per month because remote work is hard. This is on top of the normal US holidays - W/L balance is highly supported. Meetings are limited to 4 "Core Collaboration Hours" each day leaving the rest of the day to get work done. While meetings sometimes stretch outside of CCH, I still end up with big chunks of time to focus on my own work - Personal time is respected. Email and Slack stops after 5 or 6PM and doesn't restart until 9AM and is non-existent over the weekends. - Generous paid Parental Leave of 6 months spread over 12 months (can be split into 2 chunks) - 401K matching. Just added an After Tax option and Backdoor Roth 401K rollovers. - Unlimited PTO is encouraged to a point (obviously taking a large % of time off will be noticed and denied) - Pay is usually competitive w/FAANG - Fully remote but quarterly budget for getting together for team building / planning provides cross-company, in-person meetings - $7,000 per year for remote expenses covers everything you'd normally get in a tech company: food, WeWork space, exercise equipment, etc. Good products - Solid product w/top of market name recognition - Expanding into other markets to continue to grow the business - Strong working relationships across functions and divisions
Cons
People - Attrition is high (due to better pay at startups?) - 4-year cliff (similar to other companies) means compensation can drop at year 5 - No ESPP (But that's just a money giveaway. Who really holds on to the stock vs immediately selling for the gain?) Products - Fierce competition in the cloud storage market makes significant growth challenging - Adjacent businesses (HelloSign, Doc Send, Paper) are growing but future uncertain - Not leveraging industry standards enough