Box Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for less than a year

Pros – Lots of opportunity, great leadership, accessible senior management

Cons – Processes change fast, nothing stays the same for long

Advice to Senior Management – More engineers, sitting on different platforms and teams... always need more engineers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for less than a year

Pros – Incredible growth, visionary leader, and the opportunity to be a part of a historical upheaval in the Software-as-a-Service market. Great space, incredible snacks, killer food, and Silicon Valley standard perqs.

Cons – When you grow from 100+ to 600+ some processes are bound to get lost. Box hires smart so the problem is not quality, it's finding the right smart person with whom to collaborate or get a question answered.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for more than a year

Pros – Imagine working on a team where everyone is an "A+" player, and you know what Box is like. The culture is amazing, perks are ridiculous, and each person is valued.

Cons – The pace can be crazy at times, and you need to be able to take a deep breath sometimes and see how far we have come in such a short amount of time. Your dreams need to be big to succeed at Box.

Advice to Senior Management – As we grow, make sure that Boxers in the field feel connected to the company and culture.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for more than a year

Pros – Readily pursue new technology. Easily contribute and get involved. Open source projects are given time for contributions back to upstream.

Cons – Fast pace can be tiresome. Sometimes hard to get completion due to multiple projects at once.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the drive, keep hiring,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time

Pros – Lots of food, activities and beers. Open environment and culture.

Cons – Work is demanding and product is complicated. This job requires tons of real skills.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – great, great, great culture
very large addressable market w/o established leaders means for a high-potential outcome
you feel like you're really genuinely solving problems for your customers

Cons – work/life balance is a dream
very messy legacy processes - typical startup growing pains
lots of external hiring for senior positions has potential to go very badly w/r to culture, continuity, mission

Advice to Senior Management – fire faster - we need to keep the bar high, and letting projects or departments suffer due to ineffective contributers or managers is only making things worse.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for more than a year

Pros – Amazing People (I have the team of my dreams)
Invigorating Work Environment
Opportunities to Create New Programs
Everyone Gets to Make a Real Contribution to Our Total Future Success
Fun and Play are Encouraged as Much as Hard Work
RAINBOWS & UNICORNS!!

Cons – We've hired so many people, and we're moving so fast, that we don't get a chance to know each other better.
A small handful of people here only think about what's in it for them, when they should be thinking more about how they can add value to the team as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep developing our talent, and promoting from within.
Listen to your Boxers - they are super smart, motivated, and have great ideas to help scale Box.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great mission and business model
Super intelligent and fun team mates who work collaboratively
Challenging and inspiring work
This is the best place I have ever worked from an all round perspective (Mission, role, team, boss, compensation)

Cons – I have gained some weight because of all the free food and snacks they have
I just spent the day on a scavenger hunt in San Fransisco for team building. My group so wanted to win (and we did) that we ran everywhere (up and down the streets) to get the clues for 2 hours and I am total sore!

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work, recognize where we can get better and help lead us to achieve our full potential

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for less than a year

Pros – Super smart people.
Very open communication, both between developers and management.
Developers trust each other.
Super fun.
Really encouraged to speak up, be a part of the team.
Encouraged to seek out challenges.
Encouraged to take ownership.
You are encouraged to take time to think about where you want to grow. Management will then work with you to get you there.
Hard work is recognized, both in company wide meetings and in benefits/rewards.

I can honestly say that this is an amazing environment. If you are a smart, hard working, trustworthy and love challenges, then your will be very fulfilled at Box.

Cons – No matching 401k.
The lunches could be better.

Advice to Senior Management – Doing great. Keep investing in talent and rewarding that talent. A matching 401(k) would be awesome.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Box full-time for more than a year

Pros – All of the perks from food and scooters to Caltrain passes and shuttles!

Cons – Not enough visibility in certain departments to management or what other teams are doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep your customers and employees first, above all else.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company