Dropbox vs Uber

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thrfgj
Dec 13, 2021 51 Comments

Senior engineer at both these companies.
TC is similar. Both around 500k

Dropbox pros: seems extremely employee friendly with great wlb
And the benefits are awesome
They’re going after Docusign, which is a huge business with great margins so the company looks quite enticing

Cons: they need to execute with the hellosign acquisition. They are making a profit now, but have to see how they do in future

Uber pros: market leader in its space

Cons: interview process and people I interviewed with seemed very unhappy and chaotic. It seemed all the engineers were primarily being overworked

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  • Motorola / Eng
    tec146

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    tec146
    Dropbox really doesn’t have a future.
    Dec 13, 2021 6
  • Meta
    Zucksmells

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    Zucksmells
    My friend is a senior engineer at Dropbox and he constantly complains about how it's a dying company and he can't wait to switch. He's been there a bit over a year and has recently started interviewing.
    Dec 14, 2021 12
  • Amazon / Eng
    [isEmpty]

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    [isEmpty]
    Congrats!
    From a growth perspective, it depends on the domain you want to grow at. For me, I would join dropbox cause I like to work on ~strong consistency models and their problems, we have such at Amazon but with less salary and worse WLB. Even if this already exists, I would still have a chance to grow.

    I have interviews with both soon. Do you have any advice? I highly appreciate it if you can provide per-round advice, I don't care much about pure coding/algorithmic interviews (unless there is something specific like a follow-up to scale the solution), while I care too much about all the others like concurrency, dive deep interview, behavioral, sys design.
    Dec 23, 2021 5
    • Amazon
      KtAi72

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      KtAi72
      Dropbox were more around concurrency and how to deal with it. And the system design was more interactive
      Dec 23, 2021
    • Amazon
      KtAi72

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      KtAi72
      At Uber, seemed like the interviewer was trying to find loopholes. The solution I gave is what got me into Google/Fb. But the interviewer wanted a different answer. And it’s not even a technical answer but more user experience.

      For ex: we know that if we have transactions in databases the latency can be higher, so the interviewer wanted to reduce latency but not use any no sql db. The solution they were looking for was send a notification to the user that were working on it , and in the background do the processing
      Dec 23, 2021
  • Uber
    sussy baka

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    sussy baka
    Uber’s aesthetic > Dropbox. Nuff said.
    Dec 13, 2021 1
  • Uber
    MRgQ92

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    MRgQ92
    5b should be much more than 500k.
    Dec 13, 2021 10