ICs and lower lever managers are great and talented ppl for the most part. Compensation is good.
CEO is stuck to an idea that nobody else in the company believes in actually. He's dragging the company there making big moves (layoffs changing teams changing priorities changing strategy.) every 6 months every time he says he believes in it, 6 months later he comes up with a new excuse to change the direction and takes no responsibility for the past mistake.
I've Dropbox onsite coming up. Can someone please share some insights into the architecture interview as to what type of questions are asked and what is expected from the candidate? Is it usual application system design? e.g. design dropbox or design instagram etc. or more on the infra side? I ask...Read more
I'm good with System Design, Architecture and real-world scenario questions but haven't been coding since last 5yrs. Currently employed but looking for a change, if you can refer please comment so I can DM. TC: 320K YOE: 15yrs #Google, #Meta #Apple, #Microsoft, #Netflix, #LinkedIn, #Salesforce, #U...Read more
What’s the interview process for engineering manager in @Dropbox? Do they ask coding / problem solving or architecture design, management? What’s the level of @Dropbox engineering manager and what should be TC?
Dropbox already built, and battle tested the architecture, feature and software stack. Now it can definitely sustain with little maintenance, hence now what is the need of recruiting so many SWE now? You guys must be getting a lot of free time? Also see It might get weird: why Dropbox employees a...Read more
I'm hoping to leave IBM this year. A referral would be greatly appreciated. 7 YOE in network architecture and security. #dropbox
I have an upcoming onsite for front end at Dropbox. What kind of questions are expected in 2 coding rounds? Will the architecture round be similar to System design round or more front end focused? Do they have really high bar for front end roles?
I have a Frontend Architecture interview coming up. I have not given any interview on Frontend Architecture ever. I have over 2 years experience working with Javascript and React. Can you guys please help with the kind of concepts that companies generally test in such an interview ? What is asked ...Read more
Has anyone here interviewed with Dropbox for their iOS Engineer role? I have an onsite coming up in the next few weeks and am in the process of prepping. I'd love to get some insight from others who have interviewed there (regardless of role) what it's like. The recruiter said it would be 4 rounds o...Read more
So I just finished my on-site with Square for IC6. Pretty cool company, people definitely seem passionate about it. But the tech stack is quite old and “home grown”. They use Ember and host on local servers vs cloud. Regardless, it has a very high ranking on Blind. And people have all sorts of grea...Read more
How does a frontend or fullstack interview usually look like? From what I’m reading, it’s mainly focused on the web, UI and JavaScript? I know about BigFrontEnd and GreatFrontEnd platforms. My main question is, if it’s mainly focused on frontend architecture/design and some UI components, should I ...Read more
I got a great IC3 offer @ Dropbox. But I read in a lot of places/heard from friends that upleveling from IC3 to IC4 is very difficult once you’re in. I don’t care so much about the TC (even my IC3 offer is 2x my startup salary). But I do care about the types of work I get to do. I love architectura...Read more
Basically, we were two founders, plus worked with a few freelances. Got the product to MVP release, but don't have the financial resources to continue anymore. I have 8 yoe of experience working for others, then 4 years working on my startup. I came up with the architecture and worked on backend an...Read more
Posting for a family member. They have 30+ years of experience in development, and are very strong in C#, Windows Application Development, SQL, and Data Architecture. Mostly interested in a remote position, or something in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Thank you in advance! #swe #engineering...Read more
I’m interviewing with Lyft, Google, Dropbox, and Slack so far. I have 1yoe in backend web and I havent interviewed since internships. What level of leetcode problems should I expect? Any particular fields I should study? I’m assuming I wont be asked about architecture? EDIT: Should I get to the poi...Read more
Hi Community, I am prepping for the onsite FB rounds for MLE and the recruiter told me there will be a SDI round. I am going over some of the resources he shared and others available on the web but it all seems a bit overwhelming. For example, in designing a Dropbox exercise there are many protocol...Read more
Hi all, Will have virtual onsite dropbox iOS interview 2 weeks from now. Recruiter told me that it'll be a 5 part interviews as follow: 1. Debugging: This type of interview is something I have not seen before, does anyone know roughly how it'll be? e.g. working on issues of a Github project or a sa...Read more
So right now I’m interviewing for a few companies. My top 3 are Square, Dropbox, and Shopify. Here’s pros/cons of each that I saw so far: Dropbox - My favorite - Culture seems the best from asking around - Got an IC3 offer (waiting on numbers but prob around $350K) - Everyone I talked to loved it...Read more
I am a generic software engineer right now and work on writing backend services, calling them from the front end and adding some monitoring and metrics to the service. Service Oriented Architecture in short. The services I contribute to already serve millions of customers. But all that is handled ...Read more
Trying to leave a toxic work environment. Looking for an opportunity for technical and team leas growth. Preferably hybrid, cool with remote/in office. Current TC: $117 2 years of experience all over the stack: - distributed systems (micro-front ends) - JS / TS / React / HTML / CSS - web accessib...Read more
I’m looking for an opportunity in the area of: - Hardware/Sytem/Post Silicon Validation - Customer Application Engineering/Account Management or - SDET/Software Test Automation/Python Scripting - Product Engineering I also have good understanding of SAS, MVMe, PCIe protocols, CXL, embedded systems...Read more