Box reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,318 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 1,318 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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1K reviews
4.0
Oct 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Talented and collaborative teammates. Supportive immediate managers and approachable leadership.

Cons

Outdated tech stack slows down development and innovation. Overly complex and bureaucratic processes that hinder productivity. Limited focus on modern best practices (CI/CD, cloud-native, automated testing). Slow decision-making and resistance to adopting new tools. Technical debt makes projects harder to maintain.

3.0
Mar 4, 2025

So-so

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Supportive group, impressive gear & very charming office.

Cons

Micro-management on a level I have not seen elsewhere (home office with "voluntary" all-day calls effectively binding you to the desk). Boring projects, lack of mission. Compensation could be higher. Liberal agenda & posing as some moral compass (chill, you're just a company which makes money).

2.0
Sep 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It’s a premium contract company - you get the employment benefits, rsu and the office. You can do nothing and get paid.

Cons

During the existence of the Warsaw office nothing has changed in terms of ownership and cooperation with the US. Anything is driven there, we are just executing someone’s plan. There’s no real way to grow outside of your role because of that. Any process is US centric, not to mention rigid and overblown processes for architecture and software development. Also nothing has changed in developer experience - tooling is non existent, constantly migrated platforms are not developed. Product management is tragic, PMs would be interns somewhere else.

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