Dropbox application questions — all 21, word for word
Dropbox hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 21 questions, 16 of them required. 2 of them are required, fixed-choice questions about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
53 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and sales. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Dropbox has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Dropbox titles them, in Remote - Canada: Select locations, Remote - US: Select locations, Remote - US: All locations, Remote - Poland:
- Account Executive
- Business Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships
- Data Analytics Partner, People Analytics
- Director of Marketing Strategy
- Director of Media Strategy & Activation (Paid Media)
- Director, Product Design
- Director, Sales Compensation
- Enterprise Context Architect
- Head of Field and Partner Marketing
- Head of Global Sales Enablement and AI Adoption
- Infrastructure Software Engineer
- Infrastructure Software Engineer, Metadata Core
20 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 212 employers measured ask (median: 13), the least standard being “Do you have direct experience preparing content for AI consumption, with working fluency in retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, semantic chunking, embeddings, vector search, and citations?”.
The eligibility questions
These are required, and answered from a fixed list rather than in your own words: work authorisation, visa sponsorship or security clearance. Employers often use questions like these to filter applications automatically, but Greenhouse's public data does not say whether Dropbox does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship or a visa transfer for employment visa status (ie: H-1B visa)? required, fixed choice | No, I can work for any US employer without sponsorship (eg: US citizen, permanent resident, EAD, etc.), Yes, I require sponsorship or a visa transfer (eg: J-1, F-1 CPT/OPT, H-1B, TN, etc.) |
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for work authorization? required, fixed choice | No, I can work for any employer in the offer location without sponsorship, Yes, I require sponsorship for work authorization in the offer location |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship or a visa transfer for employment visa status (ie: H-1B visa)? No, I can work for any US employer without sponsorship (eg: US citizen, permanent resident, EAD, etc.), Yes, I require sponsorship or a visa transfer (eg: J-1, F-1 CPT/OPT, H-1B, TN, etc.) |
select | Yes |
| Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for work authorization? No, I can work for any employer in the offer location without sponsorship, Yes, I require sponsorship for work authorization in the offer location |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Website | text | No |
| What is your legal first name? | text | Yes |
| What are your personal pronouns? She / Her / Hers, He / Him / His, They / Them / Their, Zie / Ze / Zir / Hir / Zir, Please use my name, Multiple pronouns - Please ask me (+1 more) |
select | No |
| Current Location Australia, Canada - Alberta, Canada - British Columbia, Canada - Ontario, Canada - Quebec, Canada - Saskatchewan (+72 more) |
select | Yes |
| Please provide the zip code of your primary residence. | text | Yes |
| How did you hear about this role? (Please select all that apply) BuiltIn, Contacted by Recruiter, Dropbox Career Site, Dropbox Talent Community, Facebook, Glassdoor (+8 more) |
multiselect | Yes |
| Have you previously worked for Dropbox? Yes, former employee, Yes, former contingent worker or vendor, No, I have not previously worked for Dropbox |
select | Yes |
| Please email me about future job openings Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have 4+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Location Cost Tier High Cost, Mid Cost, Low Cost, Unknown |
select | No |
| Fingerprint | text | No |
| Do you have at least 5 years in business development, distribution partnerships, product management, or related commercial roles within SaaS, cloud services, or technology.? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have at least 2 years of full time relevant working experience? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have hands-on experience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or semantic models that structure content for machine consumption? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have 7+ years designing how information is structured, owned, and maintained at enterprise scale, including at least 2 years applying that work to AI retrieval and grounding? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have direct experience preparing content for AI consumption, with working fluency in retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, semantic chunking, embeddings, vector search, and citations? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you currently authorized to work for any employer in the country outlined for this role? I am authorized to work for any employer in the country outlined for this role (e.g., a citizen, permanent resident, etc.), My current work authorization requires a renewal or sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., J-1, F-1 CPT/OPT, H-1B, TN, L-2, H-4, etc.), My status to work in the country in this job location is unknown. |
select | Yes |
| Do you possess a BA/BS in an analytical or quantitative field such as Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline? Yes, No |
select | No |
| Do you have 3+ years of experience in an HR-focused, stakeholder-facing Data Analytics role, with at least 1 year of experience focusing on Recruiting/Talent Acquisition insights? Yes, No |
select | No |
| Do you possess fluency in SQL and advanced Excel; experience using statistical or analytical tools such as R or Python? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
What it's really asking about
Grouped by what each question is for, so you can prepare the answers that repeat across employers.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Years of experience | 7 |
| Other | 4 |
| Relocation | 3 |
| How you heard of them | 2 |
| Visa sponsorship | 2 |
| Role-specific screening | 1 |
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 1 |
| Work authorisation | 1 |
What other employers ask
The same question rarely comes out the same way twice. These employers' forms are measured the same way, from their own job boards:
Eve · Fastly · Figma · Fin · Fireblocks · Fivetran
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Dropbox's asks for 16 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default. Settle the eligibility questions first — they are the ones with no room to elaborate, so knowing your answer before you start tells you whether the rest of the form is worth your time.