Just completed the onsite Interview. 2 rounds of coding + 1 design + 1 deep dive and one behavioral Design and deep dive round went well Behavioral round was fine The first coding round went good. Was able to justify my solution and the concurrency part. In the second coding interview, I was able to give 2 different solution. One with space optimal and other with time optimal but was not able to come up with a solution that had both. The interviewer gave multiple hints but did not have time to come up with the best solution. What do you guys think? Will I end up getting an offer or not? Yoe : 5yrs Location : Seattle Tc : 180k Update : Got rejected
Hmmm I think I know what questions you got. It’s a little risky, definitely seen people getting rejected when they weren’t able to come up with that third approach after hints. Depends on the level, that question also has a concurrent follow up I believe
If Google Drive has a decent PM there wont be a company named DropBox
Same argument as if Aws has good PMs there won’t be a cloud provider called azure
Are you saying Dropbox has tons of services and features that cant be replicated by a team at Google? This is not true for AWS. There is always a competition. Dropbox would exist as a unicorn if Google cares to put them out of business. Not true for Aws and Azure. There is real market share and fake market share. Most tech companies like Dropbox can be swallowed easily by Google/Amazon/Microsoft. Teams vs Slack is an example.
Probably a no hire/down level for the coding portion. Since you got the deep dive, then IC3+. The deep dive and all around gets weighted much more
Probably worth an offer—I’d guess for IC2 but maybe even IC3. I certainly got tripped up in mine more than you described, though part of it was my interviewer’s attempt at communicating what he was asking. Good luck op.
So do you know anything about how docsend does hiring, are you using a shared question bank?
Did you get an offer?
Got rejected :|
What is a "deep dive" section of the interview?
Dropbox asks concurrency questions? Haven't seen too much of those on lc. And I'd say you probably got in unless it was for a high level. Sounds like you did great except one round where you still did pretty good. Almost no company expects you to be perfect. But it really depends on the interviewer too.
Seems like Dropbox does not ask usual LC questions and that was the case with me too.
So they don't ask the dropbox tagged questions on lc anymore?