How is management perceived at Box?

Great culture and good managers

Hard to move up to next level

Managers genuinely care about you, great work life balance and pay!

There's a lot to learn when you first start, but super worth it.

- HR hires quality people - Good culture - Unlimited PTO - ESPP

No product vision, strategy, and failure to execute. Depending the day of the day of the week and the leader you're speaking to Box is a "different kind" of company, all of which ignore the core purchase reasons of the existing and future customer base. Leadership expects company to turn on a dime based on the day's whim. - Product decline and instability: Newest features are weak, buggy, and never fixed. Critical customer requests to support highest value use cases are ignored - Operational dumpster fire. No role clarity, processes nor ownership. Things that should take minutes or hours take days and weeks if they get done at all. No one has any idea what anyone else is doing - Internal meeting, change, and resource organization fatigue - Micromanagement, and managers expect ICs to hold other teams "accountable" instead of managers aligning with each other - Lack of technical guidance and services for customers - Mediocre pay with little growth opportunity - No 401k match - RSUs don't gain value

The people are great and management is helpful

The CEO is all over the place and is now mandating back in office jobs only

- powerful and useful product to build, sell and improve - international environment where you can thrive and polish your stakeholder management skills and English command - generous employee benefits and SWAG (for example, +1 PTO day for your birthday) - nice office(s) in Warsaw - opportunities to grow horizontally and doing internal mobility movements - great office and company events - investing in EB heavily - stable contract of employment and offering RSUs - you can make some friends and meet smart people, if you're lucky :) - there are some decent Engineering Managers out there

- Company Values are just on the paper and Make Your Mom Proud means nothing, because there is no human decency and morality among Leadership (for example: offering candidates way below the internally approved salary ranges just because the candidates had lower salary expectations) - Leadership / Directors are always right, they are not open to hear feedback or improve anything, they just wanna hear praises and nice things - there's back stabbing and gossips everywhere so better watch yourself - removing uncomfortable people is a norm, especially when they could get in the way of a Manager being promoted or they would reveal his incompetence - Managers care more about their promotion than promoting their direct reports - there are managers with no people management skills whatsoever, micromanagers encouraging people to work from their vacation and sick leaves, not supporting taking more than a week of PTO, during 1:1's talking more about their travels, plans or loans in francs than about your work and how to unblock you, thriving a culture of blame, fear, silence, obedience and working over hours; gossiping and complaining about other people and other direct reports with you during your 1:1's, if they got a negative feedback in the employee surveys they were provoking weird conversations and sharing guesses who was the author the negativre feedback, not interested in any feedback or improvement because they considered a direct report can't give them feedback; led several direct reports to burnout, ending in a hospital or having a severe breakdown, masters of gaslighting - the most toxic work culture I ever experienced with corporate politics and playing games - no work life balance if you work from Europe - I've seen people who were fired unfairly just because their Managers didn't like them and wanted to get rid of them

I love my team, my manager, and the fact that every single person is getting promoted with 6-9 months of being in the role(just had 4 people promote within 6-8 months of being in this role! Great sign

None! Other than its a typical sales grind role but you can absolutely work your 9-5 and if you use good time management you will hit 100% quota!

Very supportive management, both in terms of personal growth and work-life balance. Lots of room to adapt the project pipeline to one's interests. Flexible working hours - hybrid model in theory, in practice some colleagues work almost fully remote, can adjust schedule. Great office in the city center. Good pay compared to local peers.

Some of the homegrown tooling is overly restrictive. Outdated or non-existent documentation for some processes and data sources. Time difference between US and Europe sometimes gets in the way.

Collaborative environment. Lots of innovation

Not sure how meritocratic Box is. Lots of middle management

- Strong executive leadership with clear direction - Customers see the value in the software and there is a product/market fit - Managers care about work life balance and your professional growth - Autonomy to do valuable meaningful work and focus on the right initiatives for your role

- Nothing comes to mind

Base pay is decent, as are the RSUs you get when you join. Hybrid, at least for now. Offices are OK places, which is good since you'll be spending more and more time there. They will pay part of your lunch.

The company's culture is rapidly going downhill. Leadership seems to be moving to make this place as dreary as possible, where people are purely judged based on their metrics rather than how well they actually do the work. Morale is in the toilet and it shows in the number of outages occurring. People are just going through the motions and the level of toxicity is rising daily. RTO is being slowly ramped up. We went from 2x to 3x this year, and it's mandatory - managers say they are given attendance data from our badges and if you're not in the office 3x/wk you will feel it at performance time. It's almost certain they're going to force 4x/wk this year. There used to be transport cost benefit, but that got thrown away. They also took away the quarterly mental health days this year. Benefits that are left are pretty pathetic compared to other valley companies, let alone "leading" ones, and there are fewer every year. Raises are pitiful, and stock refreshes are rare (and tiny when they happen). Seems like the company is quite happy to give people the equivalent of a huge pay cut after four years; are they hoping people will just leave? Promotions are also a grueling slog and even if you get the title they won't even pay you the money for months afterwards. Stealth layoff last year in the guise of realignment and culling of low performers. Leadership seems to either be absent or obsessively micro-managing projects. The CEO is buried in details, sitting in design meetings approving the appearance of buttons. Meanwhile we bounce from moonshot to moonshot in the hope of somehow appearing relevant in the AI bubble. The stock price keeps falling so it's not working, but it's depressing to watch and morale-sapping.