After solving the take home challenge, I had a phone screen to solve one technical problem via zoom. The interviewer started saying that he didn’t know the problem and I’d have to through the problem a little blind. They also don’t provide test cases, so you can’t run your code anytime. He didn’t know how to introduce the question and what he expected, what was the input I should expect, I kept asking questions and seemed to not understand what I asked. I walked him through my thought process until he understands that there was information missing. 15-20min later he finally gave me the information that was missing. I was able to finish the problem and 2 days later got a rejection. I’m still not sure if when he said he didn’t know the problem and I’d have to go blind, it was a strategy to make the interviewer even more nervous. If companies expect the interviewers to be clear while solving a problem, they should give us an interviewer that can understand clarify question about the problem. That was the worst experience ever.

There was no direct contact with anyone from Dropbox. I was sent a technical assessment that seemed to be of normal difficulty level and was moved on to the second round which was an extreme jump in level from the first. I asked two other engineers that have been coding for 3 years and they both didn't think they'd be able to finish the ask in the given amount of time.