I feel challenged all the time at Dropbox, given the scale of the product, and that the team size we work in is really small. You always have the opportunity to contribute something significant and impactful, so that’s exciting and challenging at the same time.

The environment is really positive and friendly. Of course, from a technical perspective, I’ve learned a lot, and because it’s such a big company I have opportunities to learn from many different aspects, because every project deals with different challenges and platforms and infrastructures. But this is second to the people!

To be a high-functioning, high-performing team is an opportunity that’s often missed—we can tend to think that all team members of a single discipline need to have the same skills and look and act the same. But when we identify how each person is energized and brings something unique to the table, we can use this to bring something special to the project as well, and make something amazing that’s bigger than all the individual parts.