The fact that the Dropbox client was 10 years old and remained a simple and refined UX said a lot – any other company would have peppered the product with random features. And from the interview alone, I could tell Dropbox had an amazing product culture I had to see how it worked from the inside. IMVU was a great engineering organization, but the product direction was weak and aimless. Finally, in frustration, I asked “What are we doing? It costs me real money to take days off, so do you want to offer me a job or not?” They did.Īt the time, it seemed like a good offer – relative to IMVU, a doubling in total compensation! In hindsight, though, I should have negotiated higher. By this point I’d met with something like 14 people. After passing those, they invited me again to meet with more product leads. After passing what ended up being a short half-day round of trivial whiteboard problems, I was annoyed to find that I’d have to take another day off and come back for a second round. Next, they scheduled a proper technical interview. After dinner introductions and recruiter phone calls, I was first invited up to San Francisco to meet with a handful of product division leads. I knew someone at Dropbox, and I’d met some more smart people at CppCon 2014, so when they reached out to see if it made sense for me to join, I didn’t say no. I’d been at IMVU almost ten years (an eternity by Silicon Valley standards!) and realized a year would disappear without me noticing. In fact, this post says more about me than it does about the company.Īnd two years is the average Silicon Valley tenure, right? The Interview I certainly don’t regret my time there - my coworkers were amazing and I learned a lot about myself. Inevitably, someone will read too much into it and come away with some overgeneralized lesson, but keep in mind that I was only there for two pre-IPO years and only exposed to a couple specific areas corners of the company. This post is a collection of stories from my time at Dropbox.
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