Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
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Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#2In related news, Dropbox employees were surprised to find that the new building's locks could be opened with any key and that despite the landlord's Terms of Service, janitors and other building staff can in fact open and view private containers and documents belonging to employees.
Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#3Hiring based on plan compared to need. Does all of this crazy funding raise anyone else's hackles? Maybe it's just that I'm not in Silicon Valley or SF.
Update: Perhaps it is just the signaling of going from 65 to 400 that bothers me. I like Dropbox's service and agree they are doing well. Is the mention of 400 employees meant to be a signal for future investors, those interested in working there or perhaps other competitors? A change from 65 to 400 employees is not a single hop but requires quite a bit to fall into place according to plan.
Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#4In related news, Dropbox employees were surprised to find that the new building's locks could be opened with any key and that despite the landlord's Terms of Service, janitors and other building staff can in fact open and view private containers and documents belonging to employees.
Come on, that's just mean.
Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#5Hiring based on plan compared to need. Does all of this crazy funding raise anyone else's hackles? Maybe it's just that I'm not in Silicon Valley or SF. Update: Perhaps it is just the signaling of going from 65 to 400 that bothers me. I like Dropbox's service and agree they are doing well. Is the mention of 400 employees meant to be a signal for future investors, those interested in working there or perhaps other com…
I don't know if this is all that crazy. Ambitious, yes, but it's tempered compared to the '90s. Dropbox is doing very well and wants to try and do very, very well.
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#6I know that they have taken some heat for security issues of late, but, frankly, I love this company and their product and I am happy to see them doing well.
The magic of Dropbox is that it strikes just the right balance between simplicity and power.
When my mother deleted a book that she had been writing for almost a year (and its backup), I was able to show her how to retrieve deleted documents from Dropbox. It was incredible.
Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Well Dropbox is magic to most of the people that I have introduced it to.
I know that there are other solutions out there that do similar things to what they do, but I have never really been able to find one that just clicks with so many people regardless of technical ability.
Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#7Great to hear. I'm glad to know Dropbox is here to stay.
Just remember to keep the service simple. Don't fall into the feature pit!
Re: Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees
#8Would someone break down for me what Dropbox needs all those people for?
Is Dropbox starting some big new project that can't be handled by the current number of employees?
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#9Maybe I'm just an ignorant not-involved-in-a-startup person, but what is Dropbox doing with these 400+ employees?
To me Dropbox seems like it's a pretty simply and mature product feature-wise. Have they announced that they're expanding into other products? I just hope they won't bloat Dropbox the way that some of these one-main-feature softwares were inflated in the past (ICQ, etc).
edit: I guess what got me thinking about this is that I'm reading the book by Google employee #59, and Google had a working search engine and they were building their own hardware with less than 100 employees. Just not sure what Dropbox can do with 400+ since their product is a lot simpler and they're not dealing with datacenters, though maybe it makes sense if these people are mostly doing marketing and sales.
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#10Why does Dropbox need 400 employees!? Really high headcounts are the guaranteed path to eventual mediocrity. Why do almost no companies see this and prevent it?