What are working conditions like at Box?

Good people, Nice benefits, great office soace

Sometimes a bit chaotic processes

new office, renumeration, culture of the company

late meetings due to work with US

good pay, nice office, good benefits

stock not growing too much too much management overhead forcing office work

Competive Salary, inclusive culture, nice office in city center.

Can be choitic and a lot depends on in which team you ends up.

- Useful and competitive benefits - Interesting challenges to solve - Progression opportunities are available - Great community and culture and office!

Sometimes it can take a while for decisions to be made internally.

No pressure, great office and solid comp

Decision making is 95% on US side, horrible dev experience, tons of red tape, no potential for Box to grow, low engineering competency

Decent pay Great office Skilled colleagues Large scale Challenging projects

Lots of sniffing around and micromanagement from US Stock price dropping instead of growing Unstable systems Lots of internal bureaucracy that stifles progress and causes teams to work under a lot of pressure Culture and values are more for show than reality

Great people Great office Transparent CEO (to some extent)

EMEA VP has clear favourites and trying to push others out the business. Just be honest with these people if they’re not a fit for you. No trust between EMEA leadership and AEs. Management want to be in on all opportunities but point fingers when it doesn’t close and take the credit when it does. Not a con but culture at Box was key however to get to the next phase of growth that needed to change and has and is changing to be a more metric driven - calls, meetings, pipeline etc. I get this is key but they need to understand culture will be lost and this needs to be accepted.

- 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

Good pay & job safety (no big layoffs so far)

The environment is highly political, with significant communication gaps between departments, which makes collaboration difficult. The sales strategy is very reactive, meaning that when things don’t go as planned, those in supporting roles often bear the brunt of the blame. Rather than focusing on solutions, the culture tends to prioritize assigning blame, leading to a frustrating and demotivating work atmosphere. Favoritism is also a noticeable issue, particularly in the UK. It’s clear that promotions and opportunities often go to those with the right connections rather than those who have demonstrated strong results. This creates an uneven playing field, where knowing the right people can lead to better deals, fewer responsibilities, and more resources, while others are left to struggle.