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If Dropbox engineers are so good across the board, why are they interviewing at all? Surely the desire to move away from this kind of technical nirvana would be
by Simon_O_Rourke 5y ago
If Dropbox engineers are so good across the board, why are they interviewing at all? Surely the desire to move away from this kind of technical nirvana would be almost zero?
- jldugger 5y agoDropbox was famously leading the SWE comp charts[1]. In particular, they focused on equity grants both pre- and post-IPO. Well, live by the equity sword, die by the equity sword: SP500 is up 16 percent in the past year, DBX is down 10 percent. Even over the long term, DBX is down 15 percent since their IPO 5 years ago, while SP500 is up 77 percent. It's the kind of performance that results in layoffs[2], which will probably hit your most expensive / experienced engineers first. Glassdoor ratings suggest remote work did not go well when combined with the layoff. [1]: https://medium.com/@paysa/thinking-inside-the-box-spotlight-on-dropbox-jobs-and-salary-trends-3800408305ce https://medium.com/@paysa/thinking-inside-the-box-spotlight-... [2]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dropbox-layoffs/dropbox-to-layoff-11-of-workforce-coo-to-step-down-idUSKBN29I1X0 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dropbox-layoffs/dropbox-t...