Box reviews

Sr. Management Changes, Selling like our customers want to buy, NY office needs updating.

Box has made a strategic pivot towards AI, which includes all but mandating AI usage among engineers. I'm not going to tell other people what makes their work productive, but I would like the same courtesy extended to me and this year has been full of AI propagandization all the way down the leadership chain. Box tracks AI utilization metrics and will criticize engineers who want to write code on their own. Box also has an engineer-first culture embraced to its detriment. Middle management seems to think the proper solution for any management problem is to have engineering take on more responsibility rather than providing leadership and direction to enable engineers to do their best work. Recently in a meeting discussing a companywide survey, management was rated lowest and so this was the primary topic. Most of the action items were for engineers to work around the poor management rather than for management to improve themselves.