Box Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.0

32% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Aaron Levie

29% approve of CEO

15% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Box with 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. Box is rated 22% below average by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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53 reviews
4.0
Feb 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Smart pleasant teammates, quite interesting tasks, not bad compensation

Cons

Management is trying to please CEO instead of thinking more themselves on product vision Weak engineering culture. Compensation is decreasing.

2.0
Dec 6, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Box has a good culture of collaboration among engineers. I've worked with some great people here.

Cons

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.

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