Dropbox interview question

Detect duplicate files uploaded to Dropbox.

Interview Answers

Anonymous

17 Jan 2017

To prevent false-positives, I did a SHA1 implementation, which they decided was too heavy. They want you to use stat to find the file size.

Anonymous

30 Aug 2017

We use Ashisoft Free Duplicate File Finder software to find and remove duplicate files across all our local or network drives. It works smoothly and always help to declutter our disk space.