Dropbox futures
I’m expecting an offer from Dropbox IC3(senior). Currently at Amazon as L5, TC 250k. Offer range from 320k - 350k. What do you guys think of dropbox future? Is it still a prestige company to join? #engineering #dropbox #offer
320-350 is pretty low for Ic3. You should be able to ask for a lot more if you have competing offer
Most of my friends at Dropbox are unhappy with the permanent work from home situation. I left after 5 years because I'm not optimistic about Dropbox's future, but if you can put that aside it is a great place to work. Smart people, fun, technical product.
What was your interview process like and yoe? I’m an L5 also trying to relocate to the Bay Area
What is your location? The ranges are different depending on where you live.
There are a lot of people leaving or who recently left because they didn’t like virtual first. That’s fair, it’s a big change and it’s not for everyone. Dropbox is at an interesting point in evolution. Large, complex, high scale product so some interesting technical and organizational challenges. We are solving hard problems. We are also pursuing new products so there is plenty of trying new things and experimenting going on in some new product teams, as well as platform-type investments required to support new products. There are many talented engineers. Dropbox has been great at attracting a certain kind of person: those who are pleasant to work with.
Lol at those Interesting, hard and challenging problems. but +1 on great people
I guess it depends upon where you are in the org. Platform in particular has a lot of interesting, hard technical problems. There are many product teams also solving hard product problems, which can be technically hard but not in the same way as platform tends to be. No doubt there are many teams executing on relatively simple things too, and that’s a good thing.
Similar position as you, joining Dropbox. Looks to be a chill place to work with good wlb better than Amazon/Azure with better comp too
BTW how’s the perm process like in Dropbox? Do they support day 1 green card? Is it impacted by the layoff this year?
The started mine in 1-2 weeks after joining.
Day 1 support, just message our immigration team
Who cares, experience matters.