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Dropbox - Frontend Engineer - Code Screen

Level: IC3 Education: BS Computer Science Years of Experience: 7 Questions Asked: Via CodeSignal - build a book listing app. Consisted of 4 phases; began with listing book details from static (provided JSON) data, the…

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Dropbox Senior Frontend Engineer

Dropbox - Dropbox Senior Frontend Engineer - Tech Screen Description: Education: Masters Questions Asked: implement an Emitter class using vanilla JS. instance methods to implement on off once ensure you can pass…

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Dropbox - [Frontend Engineer] - Phone Screen

Level: Mid-Level Education: BA CS Years of Experience (YOE): 4 Questions Asked: Custom DOM Traversal: Function Signature: getElementsByClassnameHierarchy(root, 'a>b>c') Description: Find all elements with class c …

2RpTHH02Interview Experience

Dropbox Frontend Interview Tech Screen

The frontend phone interview is really just as complained about on the forums, always the same question for years. The Frontend engineer I interviewed with had only been in the position for ten months and wasn’t very fam…

OvVmArNFInterview Experience

Frontend Interview at Dropbox: Full Timeline

Like most people, it’s about the text editor question. The requirement is to implement BACKSPACE instead of DELETE (which means deleting the character before the cursor), but it’s similar to delete. The original poster…

IDTf0xO5Interview Experience

Dropbox Frontend JS interview

At the end of June, during the interview process, HR asked whether to choose online assessment or an in-person interview. Without much thought, I chose the online assessment. About a week later, I received an invitation…

36HK9sInterview Experience

Frontend Interview at Dropbox

Just finished the onsite, still have 30 test cases for Text Editor. I did it once in advance, but still didn’t complete even half of the test cases. I was careless. It feels like 90 minutes is really not enough. I interv…

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Dropbox Frontend Interview - Full Details

Accumulate some good luck and share the interview experiences prepared for the upcoming interview. The questions were mostly similar to those mentioned in the interview experiences, but there is a notable difference betw…

Mmoj1ReUInterview Experience

Frontend Interview at Dropbox: Full Experience

Recently, I completed the Dropbox apprenticeship onsite second round. The topic was still about an in-memory database system, but the questions had some changes compared to previous interview experiences. Level 1 still…

7proFLzInterview Experience

Interview Frontend Virtual Onsite at Dropbox

Two front-end interview questions The first question getNodeByClass(root, class a){ //className // return all nodes that have class a (string) } The second question getNodeByClassPath(root, classpath a){ //classNam…

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Dropbox Frontend Interview Questions

When I saw there were limited frontend interview experiences, I decided to share my recent frontend phone interview questions and also ask for advice! I had two rounds of phone interviews, and the questions were not typ…

XRcamInterview Experience

Interview for Dropbox Frontend Role

First Round Phone Interview Recursion can be used to solve. Second Round Onsite Debugging: Vanilla JS version of TODO MVC, with around 5-7 bugs for you to fix. System design: Contact app API design, similar to iPhone…

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Interview Experience at Dropbox Frontend

Throwing the box interview is the most comprehensive front-end interview I have participated in, which can best assess the abilities of a front-end engineer. Not only are there multiple onsite interviews (six rounds, 2 c…

uVioUnInterview Experience

Dropbox Frontend

Sharing a senior front-end interview experience. 1.system designcalendar, focus on front-end component design, model design and api design 2. frontend todo list debug, there are 7 bugs to solve, the author solved 5, if…

05WTzInterview Experience

Dropbox Front-End Virtual Onsite

Front-end interview experiences have been relatively scarce. I will share them one by one later. I interviewed a total of 4 companies. Failed at Compass and Failed at Box. Passed at Adoubi, had an additional interview wi…