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      Pre-Sales Engineer Interview

      20 Feb 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Dropbox in Feb 2020

      Interview

      Five stage process with one phone interview and four in-person interviews. I wouldn't expect any less than five interviews and each one seemed fair and relevant to the role. The technical aspect of the interview process required a deep understanding and ability to explain dropbox's own infrastructure and core engineering principles. While I personally enjoyed learning this material, I feel the ask from them was a bit high; I would expect some on-the-job training and shadowing of other sales engineers before being examined on this. What left a somewhat bad taste in my mouth was the time it took to get feedback on the interview process. Having invested a good bit of my own time and effort into the process, it was a bit frustrating to be left waiting for over a week without another feedback (even after following up). It seems like a great company, great people and great perks but without sounding bitter, that took the shine off the company and made the rejection a little easier to take.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Explain how you describe Dropbox to your grandmother
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Explain X aspect of the upload function
      Answer question

      Question 3

      If our entire code base was wiped, how would and where would you begin when rebuilding it.
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