Dropbox offers free space at recruitment session
Students received 10 GB of free Dropbox space at a recruitment information session hosted by the company's user operations team in Duncan Hall on Oct. 22.
An additional 10 GB of space was also provided for every member of the residential college with the most attendees.
McMurtry College won 10 GB space for every attendee; Brown College had the second highest number of attendees, and Lovett College came in third place.
Founded in 2008, Dropbox provides cloud storage, file synchronization and client software for more than 50 million users, according to the Dropbox website.
Dropbox User Operations Engineer Stefano Cayre said the purpose of the session was to recruit students to work for the company.
"[The industry] is growing very fast, and we need to hire great people," Cayre said. "Rice is one of the places we go to."
This is the first time that Dropbox has recruited through the Office of Employer Relations and the first time that Dropbox has been on Rice's campus, although they have posted jobs in RICElink since 2011, according to Jessica Campbell, Associate Director for Employer Relations.
"I think that Dropbox did a great job of advertising their session by creating a Facebook event and having a contest where the college with the most attendees won extra space on Dropbox," Campbell said. "They had a Rice alum involved in marketing and did a great job of connecting with student clubs and getting the word out."
Besides emphasizing the diverse working environment at Dropbox composed of people from different backgrounds, the presentation also focused on user operations and internationalization.
At the beginning of the presentation "User Operation - the Voice of the User," Cayre introduced the jobs available within the user operations team of 30 people.
McMurtry College senior Heaven Chen said that as a computer science major, she was interested in the company and wanted to learn more.
Brown College junior Alex Chiu said that he went to the session for free Dropbox space and to learn about the company.
Hanszen College freshman Aurea Li went to the session for a different reason.
"I use Dropbox a lot, and I really want a free T-shirt," Li said.
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