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Looks like Dropbox has trouble retaining tech talent?

• leeny 5y ago
  Author here. We didn't publish a histogram showing how many users we have from each company, so I guess you'll have to trust me on this one. Dropbox has waaaay fewer engineers on interviewing.io per capita than some of the other companies... many of whom didn't make the top ten list. In our experience, they're quite good at retaining talent.
  • horsawlarway 5y ago
    Doesn't this exact comment undercut your results fairly heavily? You're admitting that it's much more likely dropbox is a statistical anomaly because of fewer data points, rather than a robust data set.
    • leeny 5y ago
      it's possible. we did see statistical significance when comparing dropbox to others despite the relatively smaller sample size. but yes, that is possible.
      • dtashima 5y ago
        Maybe add error bars to give it a little more color?
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• cgearhart 5y ago
  Or simply that they have significant bias in their interview process for selecting candidates with strong interview skills. At that point it’s tautological—if you only select people who ace interviews then you’ll have a bunch of people who ace interviews.
• smrtinsert 5y ago
  I remember seeing a job description that was something like must be self starter, enjoy high energy postive environment! enjoy coding in RoR etc To me this reads like legacy Rails codebase people are too scared to touch that's always causing fires. No thanks.
  • overrun11 5y ago
    There has never been any rails code at Dropbox