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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3.0
Dec 16, 2025

Meh

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Kind of fun Good people

Cons

Bad management CEO is a mouth breather

1.0
Jul 24, 2025

What a nightmare

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It put food on the table and a roof over my head.

Cons

Manager's lack of technical skills was utterly shocking. I spent a lot of time teaching them basic concepts. Manager's volatility, constant micromanagement (flooding DMs on the hour), and vague, contradictory instructions made Box a demoralizing and destructive place to work. In addition, the work I ended up doing was far beyond the scope of the job description or what someone at my level would generally be doing. Overtime was atrocious. All of this for compensation well-below market (you won't make it here long enough for RSUs to vest). Ultimately, manager made my life so miserable I had to leave.

1.0
Jun 26, 2025

Low comp, incompetent leadership, turning into Polish company.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some genuinely talented and dedicated people work here at the individual contributor level. Overall friendly culture.

Cons

Compensation is a Joke: Pay is significantly below market rate across the board. Annual raises, if they happen at all, don't even keep up with inflation. Don't expect a meaningful bonus; the goalposts are constantly shifted to make them unattainable. The message is clear: they are not interested in retaining talent. Clueless and Ineffective Leadership: The executive team is completely disconnected from the reality of the business and the morale of their employees. They operate from a 30,000-foot view, making decisions based on flawed spreadsheets without understanding the operational impact. There is no coherent strategy, communication is abysmal, and they show a complete lack of accountability for their constant string of poor decisions. Painful "Polonization". Since the influx of leadership and operational focus from Poland, the company culture has deteriorated rapidly. There are significant collaboration barriers, a major time zone disconnect that is ignored, and a clear preference for processes that benefit the Polish teams at the expense of US operations. It feels less like a global integration and more like a slow, painful outsourcing of our identity and relevance.

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