Box reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,315 total reviews)
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Aaron Levie

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Box has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,315 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Box employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Oct 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good only if you are in sales and marketing. This is an public enterprise software company running out of cash, which means R&D isn't their main focus at this point. (Just look at their SEC filing, their marketing and sales expenses are 3 times R&D). Kudos to CEO and a couple upper management somehow able to attract bright engineers with promise of 10x growth in stock price.

Cons

Most engineering managers and directors have zero people management skills. They try to imitate Google's promotion scheme but don't have the right people on the committees. End result is that people with good social and self marketing skills get promoted while people who get stuff done gets fed up, become less productive and then leave. They also don't have enough money to fairly reward all talents, so a lot of senior engineers are leaving (which is also probably what they want anyway given the need to save expenses).

5.0
Oct 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really great people to work with. Incredible lower level management and amazing Exec staff with great vision, guidance, accessibility. Generally way more mobility than almost any other tech company. Tired of sales, try operations. Tired of CS, try product. Moving is hard but DOABLE

Cons

A million VPs. Everyone's a VP. And it goes to their head. While lower management and exec staff is great, department heads lack true knowledge of the details and it shows in their delivery and calling out people as scapegoats when they have no idea what is going on.

1.0
Mar 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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