Box reviews

They do not care about their employees the way that they claim. I am pretty sure the way that they made certain staff redundant was highly unethical. People were told to leave the premises on the same day that they were made redundant, people that have been fired were treated with more dignity. No support was offered to staff and certain members of staff had to book an appointment to collect the remainder of their belongings. A lot of the staff were left disgruntled and confused as no prior notice was given, people were made redundant with immediate effect. The HR team seemed rather insensitive about the entire process, which is quite shocking as it was carried out by the most senior member of staff in HR. Box did seem like an amazing company in the beginning, but I guess somehow they lost sight of that. Redundancy is not new, but Box should learn how to at least dismiss their employees with a little bit more dignity and respect.

The company's culture is rapidly going downhill. Leadership seems to be moving to make this place as dreary as possible, where people are purely judged based on their metrics rather than how well they actually do the work. Morale is in the toilet and it shows in the number of outages occurring. People are just going through the motions and the level of toxicity is rising daily. RTO is being slowly ramped up. We went from 2x to 3x this year, and it's mandatory - managers say they are given attendance data from our badges and if you're not in the office 3x/wk you will feel it at performance time. It's almost certain they're going to force 4x/wk this year. There used to be transport cost benefit, but that got thrown away. They also took away the quarterly mental health days this year. Benefits that are left are pretty pathetic compared to other valley companies, let alone "leading" ones, and there are fewer every year. Raises are pitiful, and stock refreshes are rare (and tiny when they happen). Seems like the company is quite happy to give people the equivalent of a huge pay cut after four years; are they hoping people will just leave? Promotions are also a grueling slog and even if you get the title they won't even pay you the money for months afterwards. Stealth layoff last year in the guise of realignment and culling of low performers. Leadership seems to either be absent or obsessively micro-managing projects. The CEO is buried in details, sitting in design meetings approving the appearance of buttons. Meanwhile we bounce from moonshot to moonshot in the hope of somehow appearing relevant in the AI bubble. The stock price keeps falling so it's not working, but it's depressing to watch and morale-sapping.