![]() ![]() We also learned everyone's names and roles-both on our team, as well as the teams we would work most closely with. For example, we received dozens of links to various useful resources. They were responsible for helping us get settled-and at first they bombarded us with loads of information. Adam was paired with Bozhen, and Brian was paired with Jiayi. ![]() The next day, we met our onboarding buddies. This allowed us to learn more about the company-from senior leadership to our users’ workflows-at our own pace. One of the most useful things we received was an onboarding checklist of important tasks and a timeline for when we should do them, be it in our first week or first month. Spending the day on Zoom was exhausting at times, but our onboarding struck the right balance of being useful and informative without being overwhelming. We also set up our laptops and signed-up for benefits. As a group we talked through the Dropbox mission, our values, and business strategy. Our first day of onboarding was held over Zoom and led by our onboarding lead Alinane. Engineers get all the resources they need to succeed without being overwhelmed by information-or immediate pressure to deliver results. New hires are called Droplets, and have 90 days to get up to speed on our culture, learn various teams' processes, and ship their first small project. But at Dropbox, we found a middle ground. Brian was overloaded with classes but had little practical experience early on. Adam had essentially no onboarding at his previous company. Once I matched with a team and learned more about the projects I’d be working on, it was a very easy choice to accept the offer.īefore Dropbox, we both experienced in-person onboarding at other companies, but they were of opposite extremes. In addition, I was impressed by all the engineers and recruiters I spoke with, which made me realize my initial impression of Dropbox was true. I thoroughly enjoyed my interviews, and the questions felt challenging as opposed to just questions copied directly from LeetCode. I’ve always heard great things about Dropbox’s engineering talent and culture-and with what I’d read about their vision of remote work, I was very interested in continuing the hiring process. I was mostly expecting to learn about startups and smaller companies that were hiring, but Dropbox was one of the first companies to reach out. Our mission is to give our users the tools to keep their files tidy and organized-or, as we like to say, “a place for everything and everything in its place.” I was looking to move on from my previous job in the healthcare software industry, so I made a profile on. They really seemed to believe in the company, and were excited about Virtual First.īrian: I’m an engineer on the Organized Experience team. Early in my career I remember integrating zxcvbn, an open source password strength estimator developed by Dropbox, into a login page that I was developing! As I interviewed with Dropbox, I enjoyed thinking through the tough interview questions-which were unlike any I’d seen before-and I was encouraged by the answers the interviewers gave to some tough questions from me. I’ve always been impressed by their innovation. Fast forward to Spring 2021 my job in tech was satisfying enough, but I really wanted to look for ways to grow my career-and I came across Dropbox once again. ![]() They would hand out Dropbox t-shirts like they were problem sets, and I suspect that at least a quarter of the undergraduate population had one, if not more. My story with Dropbox goes back to my college days in 2015 when Dropbox would recruit very heavily on my campus. Our goal is to improve the workflows of teams that use Dropbox. As two recent hires in Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD), we wanted to share our experience of what virtual onboarding at Dropbox is actually like.Īdam: I’m an engineer on the Business Space Experience team. When Dropbox became a Virtual First company in October 2020, it also meant reimagining the onboarding process to ensure new employees still had a high-quality experience-similar to what they would have gotten before in person. This means we spend most of our time working remotely, with physical studios reserved for in-person collaboration. We’re Adam Hood and Brian Amaratunga-two senior software engineers who joined Dropbox in 2021 as Virtual First employees. ![]()
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