Overall, a great place to work - Anonymous employee Box Employee Review

4.0
Aug 31, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Kind people. - Supportive working environment. - Competitive compensation. - Great perks. - One of the few remaining tech companies truly focused on employee wellbeing. - No layoffs despite challenging internal and external headwinds. Sacrifices have been made by leadership teams to ensure this. - No one can hide, everyone is expected to deliver at a high standard.

Cons

- Work-life balance. - Often confusing and constantly changing strategy in EMEA. - Sales is desperate for pipeline and this pressure is pushed onto functions which should be focused on longer-term initiatives/projects as well as customer success. - Box is an amazing product which sits in a crowded software category that is seldom seen as a priority for IT leaders. It is difficult to see how Box (for which you pay a high premium) will continue competing against Microsoft, Google and what they call ‘legacy’ ECM vendors.

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5.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

Amazing culture, great benefits, teams truly care about each other, and leadership listens to employees.

Cons

AI is taking over the world and software so fast, making things more complex for products to keep up with demand.

5.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Working at Box offers a strong mix of career growth, meaningful impact, and modern tech exposure—you get to sell and support a platform that’s actually solving real-world problems across government, enterprise, and regulated industries, not just pushing software for the sake of it. The company’s focus on AI-powered content management, security, and workflow automation keeps you close to where the market is heading, which builds highly transferable skills. At the same time, the culture tends to emphasize collaboration, autonomy, and ownership, giving you room to develop your own strategies (like your targeted campaigns and use-case-driven outreach) while still having the backing of a well-established platform with strong product-market fit.

Cons

Working at Box isn’t without its challenges—one of the biggest is that the product can be harder to differentiate at a surface level, especially against tools like Microsoft (SharePoint/OneDrive) or Dropbox, which means you have to work much harder in sales to educate prospects on deeper workflow and security value. Sales cycles can be long and complex, requiring patience and persistence with multiple stakeholders. Internally, like many growing tech companies, priorities and messaging can shift as new products (AI, Extract, etc.) roll out, which can create some ambiguity. And because Box is a platform play, success often depends on how well customers adopt and expand usage, so deals don’t always feel “done” at close—you’re thinking long-term from day one.

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