Welcome to the Emerging Talent community
Ready to take your first steps into the world of tech? We can help.
Ready to take your first steps into the world of tech? We can help.
No matter whether your background includes a CS degree or culinary school, finding your footing in the tech industry can be tricky.
Over the years at Dropbox, we’ve created a variety of internships, apprenticeships, and early-in-career full time opportunities to help anyone find a space to grow and thrive. Supported by a community of mentors, program graduates, and fellow participants, our Emerging Talent programs are the perfect place to start your career in tech.
Explore our Emerging Talent programs
Internships
Summer internship program
Looking to fill your time in-between semesters with networking, mentorship, virtual activities, and hands-on experience in tech? Build your skills and hone in on your future career goals.
Apprenticeships
Engineering
We don’t require a CS degree and a lot of coding experience. We offer a 5-month apprenticeship program for professionals with non-traditional backgrounds looking to start or restart their career.
Early-in-career full-time roles
New graduates and junior level professionals
We don’t require a CS degree and a lot of coding experience. We offer a 5-month apprenticeship program for professionals with non-traditional backgrounds looking to start or restart their career.
Your tech interview guide
At Dropbox, when you apply to be a part of the Emerging Talent team, our goal is to guide you through a balanced and thorough series of General Software Engineering Assessments and interviews to get to know you and your technical and problem solving skills.
Step 1
Coding assessment
We utilize CodeSignal’s General Coding Assessment (GCA) for the first round of our process. If you’ve taken the GCA previously, share your score with us!
The GCA consists of 4 tasks of varying difficulty that assess different coding skills, focusing on implementation and problem solving. You have 70 minutes to complete the test. You may split your time as you wish.
Step 2
Tech assessment
We’ll send you another CodeSignal challenge developed by Dropbox engineers. Complete one of the 7 tasks included in the assessment in Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, or C++.
Plan to dedicate 70 minutes to complete the task. It is to be challenging, and you may not complete all requirements within the allotted time.
Partial credit will be granted for partial responses, so submit responses often to save your work.
Step 3
Recruiter interview
You and your technical abilities have made it this far, now it’s time to get to know you as a person.
This 20 minute non-technical chat with one of our recruiters is centered around your goals, personal projects and activities, and your interest in Dropbox.
Step 4
Final round interviews
We’re almost there! The final round consists of technical interviews and a non-technical interview.
The coding interviews focus on code quality, algorithms, problem solving, and potential testing strategies.
In the non-technical interview, we will dig in to school projects, prior internships, volunteering, or extracurricular activities.
Learn more about Emerging Talent at Dropbox
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