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

Former Employee – worked at Box full-time for more than a year

Pros – Business is doing well, seems to be in the right place at the right time.
High growth company (expanding rapidly in all dimensions), free food, fun environment.
Charismatic CEO gets attention and buzz for the company.
New VP of Engineering bringing maturity and leadership to engineering organization.

Cons – If you're industry experienced (not "senior" as that's 1-2 yr out of college at Box) expect to be working almost entirely with inexperienced/young engineers. Most are great to work with and want to learn however in general the culture does not value experience; be prepared to see lots of questionable judgement/competence demonstrated by the homegrown tenured developers leading projects.
Engineering caliber and quality of people is below Google / Microsoft levels. Surprising number of "seniors" lacking CS fundamentals (OO design, what's cohesion? using assertions?) Some B's hiring C's going on (... will hopefully improve as Box adopts more google like model in hiring, reviews, etc.)
Lots of untested legacy code, 10,000 line functions, tightly coupled and fragile code is common place. Major efforts to write tests and turn quality around but very much work in progress.

No, I would not 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 for more than a year

Pros – Free"ish" food. Most people are helpful and nice. They pay pretty well. This is an acceptable place to work if you are young and inexperienced. Lots of opportunity to fix bugs. Lots of opportunity to make the code stable.

Cons – Box hires rather than promotes from within. Technology stack is on the verge of collapse. The engineering team is consumed with firefighting. The pay is not worth the poor (sometimes degrading) treatment by management and technical leadership. My manager talks about their reports and coworkers behind their backs. The founders have to be "handled," because they are incapable of accepting input from others.

Advice to Senior Management – Good luck.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not 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 a year

Pros – Not much to brag about

Cons – Benefits are horrible. Only a select few get rewarded.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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