I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Dropbox
Interview
Had a phone screen with a recruiter and then had a technical phone interview with someone in the Product team.
Pros: Interviewers were passionate about their work
Cons: Did not offer feedback after interviews. Since they were case studies questions it felt very subjective and without feedback one does not know how to improve.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If you were tasked with needing to monitor the help of Amazon's search box what metrics would you use?
Pretty straightforward Product Analyst (PA) interview process. Overall process took ~1.5 months.
Process:
(1) Recruiter reached out to me via Linkedin. After speaking, decided to move to phone screen with current PA.
(2) Phone screen w/PA. Consisted of simple SQL check, ideate on metrics for a collaboration tool like Google Docs
(3) Take home: use data from a consumer tech company to suggest changes to the product UI. I used a regression to highlight which parts of the UI to change, which went over well. I could have done a better job prioritizing which UI changes to work on first/at all.
(4) Onsite consists of ~4 PA interviews + Lunch:
a. Presentation of take home to three PAs
b. SQL (use rank() to get id(s) that have the highest value in a column, rolling averages, etc.) and logging ("how would clicks data be structured in a table?") interview
c. Perhaps the best company lunch in the Bay Area!
d. Director chat (go over past projects, your strengths and weaknesses, etc)
e. Hiring manager / experimentation
Really enjoyed interviewing with Dropbox! Really friendly crowd.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Dropbox
Interview
They reached out to me (didn't apply). Got a note from recruiter to schedule an interview the next day at a certain time. I replied and agreed to the timing. Recruiter didn't call and no follow-up email with an excuse. Hilarious
Dropbox response
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We appreciate you taking the time to write a review, and our apologies for the poor candidate experience. I’ve shared the review with the hiring team, but if there’s any additional feedback you’d like to share please feel free to reach out to talent-feedback@dropbox.com.