Dropbox Employee Reviews

Great company. Highly recommend if you can get hired

High caliber talent across EPD

Toxic culture in ITS mgt team, micromanagers and petty power plays, people are treated like numbers and resources, only a few people carrying workload, too many delegators and not enough real tech talents.

Harassment, especially by middle management, is rampant and goes unchecked. The lack of accountability and transparency means doing the right thing and quality of work is rewarded less than playing the politics.

The worst job I've ever had and the worst company I've ever worked for

Seems to turnover fairly often

They are very transparent and approachable

Review from Engineering Dept

Dropbox has recently shown solid commitment to improving its middle management, both through training of existing staff and by bringing in experienced managers from larger companies.

Review from Engineering Dept

The middle management is terrible and needs to turn over.

Acknowledge people with the work they did not just with hollow empty slogans but actual reward during comp time. Mgt need to trim the fact of a few black sheep veterans who don’t know anything and lead with zero credibility and handson skills. A real anonymous survey instead of the Soap neede

Creating accountability for middle managers, empowering the people they hire to make decisions vs tops-down mandates. Creating a culture of transparency and directness.

Designing things for humans and getting actual feedback rather than unquestionable top down mandates

Review from Engineering Dept

Preventing sexism and horrible culture

Direction and making hard decisions to scale Dropbox to the next level

Free food and cafeteria with chef

Review from Engineering Dept

Its more than fair and takes care of my financial needs, emotional and mental needs, and looks out for my family

Review from Engineering Dept

Not only is the equity publicly tradable now, but salary is also slightly high both in comparison to other offers and as a percentage of total comp.

Review from Engineering Dept

Base salary is high. And good corporate bonus.

free food, bonus payment (but it's annual)

Comp should based on impact made, not on if you say yes to unreasonable requests from mgt

So much of the compensation is tied up in sales targets that are unachievable by design. Your salary is basically a hoax

Good people, talented, no egos.

Mostly people who don’t know real knowledge looking to a few that do, no details prior to meeting and waste of time. Many can be replaced by asy

Everyone is smart and driven despite the politics. But the toxic environment can get to the best performers.

most of my coworkers are great and fun to hang around with

The employees are some of the best people I have ever worked with.

Inclusivity & empathy towards those not "typical" is chronically lacking

Review from Engineering Dept

All remote, accommodating with different time zones, personal needs, etc

There are always opportunities to take on ownership of new areas, and since the company is growing, people are glad for the chance to share the load, rather than territorial and defensive of "their" space.

Review from Engineering Dept

The food is amazing

Launch a discovery by third party firm to really hear employees pain points in the trenches rather than a few mgt who are out of touch and can not accurately represent their teams

There needs to be more accountability to keep middle managers productive, instead of making them messengers of tops down mandates. There are several extremely problematic managers that are going unchecked.

Tackle rampant sexism and stop treating people like they're just their sale target

Mix up experience levels and stop bringing in so many overpaid outsiders who talk a good game but don’t do any real work. Still not large enough nor have the systems to effectively get all the day to day work done

work life balance, workload balance amongst the team, some people work 9-5, some people work more than 9-9, train middle managers to be better, hire PEOPLE managers who will care about their teams, less politics

Recruiter supports candidates throughout process,

The best part of the interview process was meeting team members.

It was quick and straight forward

Review from Engineering Dept

It was really fast but mostly because they were desperate to fill places

There are many toxic and unethical hiring practices where decisions already made prior to wasting team’s time from nepoti

People care, in tech but not an evil company

Working with smart, determined people

The scope of my job and the quality of my coworkers.

Review from Engineering Dept

All the ingredients exist- resources, smart people, and a strong core product. Leadership needs to delegate decision-making and put it all together.

Untrained, complacent management that will smile and nod and make you feel good just before you go fall flat on your face

Review from Engineering Dept

Super toxic environment where everyone is terrified

Executives in finance are all out for themselves. Sets a bad tone. Not reflective of Dropbox culture and because we are now public there is a lot of micromanagement in the wrong areas

less politics, better managers, better work life balance, hire people leaders who care about their team