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Dropbox Junior Software Engineer - how to get the job tips
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job posting https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/3354694?gh_src=aonhf1

0-2 years of full-time software development experience

this can be a blocker if you don't have a bit of experience

Product Engineering

  • create something that show that you can work end to end, from backend to web/mobile, show that you care about product design

Infrastructure Engineering

  • show that you understand infrastructure, you can deploy using ec2, using kubernets, using lambda, and that you understand the tradeoff of them

Analytics Engineering

  • what events would you track to improve Dropbox experience?

Mobile Engineering

  • Build and open source a simple app using kotlin/swift. Something related to file handling would show that you understand Dropbox busines

Front End Engineering

  • use the proposed stack: Typescript, React, and Redux. Create a basic file/folder visualization, uploads and downloads. Add tests, storybook, mini design system.

Site Reliability Engineering

  • how do you measure if the site is stable? add analytics, error monitoring (sentry), performance monitoring (elastic apm)
  • show how to debug a slow website, how to fix a production bug

Security Engineering

  • show that you know the basics of the security to make sure you don't leak user data
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