Hired helps Dropbox accelerate the path to top talent

Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that’s transforming the way people and teams work together. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, Dropbox is on a mission to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is a Virtual First company with a worldwide team of employees who choose where they work best and permanent studios in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, and Dublin.

Dropbox knows how important a differentiated candidate experience is in today’s crowded market. “We have attributes at Dropbox that we live by, and one of them is being unique and different, and creating a different experience for each candidate,” said Moriarty. “Our goal is to not provide a cookie cutter experience, but rather making sure candidates feel valued and heard, and fairly evaluated.” Technical Sourcing Recruiter Kenny Koran shared, “Our job as a recruiting team is to connect people. Making sure the engineers can connect with a manager to hear the full story about our company, and that they can really be understood as they move through the process, is important. To do this, we need to get both sides all the right data they need so they can make the best decision for themselves and their families.”

With Hired as a partner, Dropbox has made over 4,000 first round interviews, enabling the team to efficiently scale their pipeline for top tech talent. Dropbox has renewed its annual unlimited hiring plan with Hired since 2018 as they’ve scaled from a SF-based to a VirtualFirst global organization. Mike Moriarty, Head of Global Staffing of Engineering shared, “In my experience, Hired is the only tool on the market that provides you a pool of warm candidates that are looking currently, and makes it easy to connect with them. It takes us multiple quarters on average to court a passive candidate before they’re interested in Dropbox. With Hired, we’ve cut all that time out.” Because Hired carefully screens for highly engaged and active candidates, participants are quick to respond and engage with Dropbox.

Speed and efficiency have helped accelerate Dropbox’s success on Hired. In addition to an unlimited hiring plan, Dropbox partnered with Hired’s events team to host two Coding Challenges, tailored candidate events seeking mobile and general software engineering hires. Coding Challenges featured Dropbox’s proprietary coding assessments by directly integrating with Hired’s Assessments platform. In only six weeks, Dropbox reached thousands of new candidates through Hired’s global reach resulting in an additional 35 candidates to interview and 8 hires. As Technical Sourcing Recruiter Kenny Koran shared, “I think it really opened up the candidate pipeline and identified a lot of people we wouldn’t typically source, especially nontraditional backgrounds that Dropbox likes to reach. We’re extremely happy with the results. I’m excited to continue using the Coding Challenges for sure as part of our recruitment process.”

After several successful Coding Challenges, Dropbox came to Hired seeking a new kind of event to attract a specific talent pool. Dropbox was looking for women in engineering with over 10 years of leadership experience leadership and a background in designing high-level strategy. Hired offered a solution to not only meet Dropbox’s goal of building a pipeline of female leaders to fill an open position but also in building community with strong women leaders. The event came in the form of an intimate fireside chat with Dropbox’s Director of Engineering, Susanne Kaufmann. Almost 40 candidates with over a decade of experience applied, exceeding the goal of 30 individuals. Dropbox selected nine to attend the event and the chat resulted in three highly qualified candidates progressing into Dropbox’s pipeline. As for the community of women Dropbox had the opportunity to build a relationship with, Susanne summed up this aspect of the event: “From a connection perspective, it was highly, highly successful. Some of these connections feel really strong.”