Dropbox interview notes, page 2 of 5

“I jumped straight to 'run an A/B test' and they just stared at me waiting for more.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard recursive traversal problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Dropbox, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into user count and average file size without thinking about deduplication first, which is kind of a big deal for Dropbox specifically.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was a lot to unpack in one question.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Dropbox, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the one that ate up most of the round.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The enum definition part tripped me up more than the code itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Dropbox, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This anchored the whole conversation.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by asking who the executives were and what decisions they actually needed to make, which felt right but I probably spent too long on that setup before getting to the actual metrics.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into a recursive solution and it felt clean until they asked what happens on a really deep directory tree.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Dropbox, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I froze a little at first because 'education' is so broad.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Dropbox, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.