6/26/2023 0 Comments Dropbox stock buybackAnd this reputation is very much supported by its epic journey away from AWS as told by Wired a few years ago, and an active engineering blog that’s constantly showcasing the cool stuff Dropbox is building. So how does Dropbox fit on the talent acquisition front?ĭropbox has always had a stellar reputation among engineers who want to work on big, hairy problems. (Specific job titles differ depending on the company and could be misleading, so I avoid using them here.) Certainly, there are exceptional, edge case engineering talents who can fill multiple of these roles, but that rarely happens at scale. In plain terms, a cloud business needs four types of technical roles: (1) engineers who build the products (2) engineers who operate the infrastructure (3) enterprise sales who are technical (4) customer support and service. Enterprise TalentĪs I’ve noted in my post on Facebook, the tough part about building a cloud business has more to do with people than technology - without the talent, the technology is not going to build and sell itself. In this post, let’s look at the other three dimensions of building a successful cloud business - enterprise talent, business motivation, and political will. In Part 1 of this discussion on whether Dropbox should be in the cloud business, I shared my thoughts on Dropbox’s overall advantage in the areas of “core technology” and “product differentiation.” It’s also worth reiterating that “cloud business” here refers to infrastructure and/or platform-as-a-service, not software-as-a-service.
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