Dropbox Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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Asked at Dropbox, Amazon, Anthropic + 18 more • 2 months ago
Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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36 answers
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"We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "
Aabid S. - "We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "See full answer
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at Dropbox, Amazon, Atlassian + 22 more • 2 months ago
What is the project you are most proud of?
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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60 answers
+53
"I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"
Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at Dropbox, Accenture, Amazon + 8 more • a month ago
Tell me about a technical challenge that you have overcome.
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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1 answer
"performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."
Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at Dropbox, Meta • 7 months ago
Design Dropbox.
Engineering Manager
System Design
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10 answers
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"Why skip defining the data model? Or did I just miss it?"
Kurt K. - "Why skip defining the data model? Or did I just miss it?"See full answer
Engineering Manager
System Design
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Asked at Dropbox, DoorDash, Google Cloud (GCP) + 3 more • 3 months ago
Tell me about an impactful project that you led.
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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2 answers
"I responded with a project that I was a part of during my capstone class. I described how I used HTML, Python, and PostGRESQL in conjunction to create a functioning website using SCRUM."
Kanishkan V. - "I responded with a project that I was a part of during my capstone class. I described how I used HTML, Python, and PostGRESQL in conjunction to create a functioning website using SCRUM."See full answer
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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Asked at Dropbox, Amazon, Meta + 1 more • 2 months ago
Tell me about a time when you provided important feedback.
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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1 answer
"In my role as VP of operational model transformation was leading the definition of current and to be state of operations for a business representing >50% of the revenue & profits of the company. In a monthly feedback session, my manager shared how he noticed I had not delegated tasks and that I should work with 2 members who had been seconded to the team. We were working on a tight timeline and we wanted to get the targets completed earlier so that we can provide some buffer for further alignm"
Chung jin C. - "In my role as VP of operational model transformation was leading the definition of current and to be state of operations for a business representing >50% of the revenue & profits of the company. In a monthly feedback session, my manager shared how he noticed I had not delegated tasks and that I should work with 2 members who had been seconded to the team. We were working on a tight timeline and we wanted to get the targets completed earlier so that we can provide some buffer for further alignm"See full answer
Engineering Manager
Behavioral
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