Box reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,316 total reviews)
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Aaron Levie

79% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Box has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,316 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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2.0
Feb 27, 2013
Recommend
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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.

5.0
Feb 25, 2013

currently employed post MBA

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

5.0
Feb 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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