Box Software Developer reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(92 total reviews)
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Aaron Levie

81% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Box with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Box is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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92 reviews
2.0
Feb 27, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Business is doing well, seems to be in the right place at the right time. High growth company (expanding rapidly in all dimensions), free food, fun environment. Charismatic CEO gets attention and buzz for the company. New VP of Engineering bringing maturity and leadership to engineering organization.

Cons

If you're industry experienced (not "senior" as that's 1-2 yr out of college at Box) expect to be working almost entirely with inexperienced/young engineers. Most are great to work with and want to learn however in general the culture does not value experience; be prepared to see lots of questionable judgement/competence demonstrated by the homegrown tenured developers leading projects. Engineering caliber and quality of people is below Google / Microsoft levels. Surprising number of "seniors" lacking CS fundamentals (OO design, what's cohesion? using assertions?) Some B's hiring C's going on (... will hopefully improve as Box adopts more google like model in hiring, reviews, etc.) Lots of untested legacy code, 10,000 line functions, tightly coupled and fragile code is common place. Major efforts to write tests and turn quality around but very much work in progress.

5.0
Dec 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Awesome people: the employees are generally open and happy to collaborate and help each other - Working with a product that customers love and solves a real pain point for businesses - A focus on fostering a fast-paced fun culture even as the company evolves into an enterprise software company - Super fast growth both in terms of business and organization

Cons

- Super fast growth: at times we've struggled with evolving processes and culture to match our growth. I think management is aware of the issues and have worked to keep the culture and implement sane processes, but it's hard sometimes - The HQ is a little far from the caltrain station, though it's still definitely walkable

5.0
Dec 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Super smart people. Very open communication, both between developers and management. Developers trust each other. Super fun. Really encouraged to speak up, be a part of the team. Encouraged to seek out challenges. Encouraged to take ownership. You are encouraged to take time to think about where you want to grow. Management will then work with you to get you there. Hard work is recognized, both in company wide meetings and in benefits/rewards. I can honestly say that this is an amazing environment. If you are a smart, hard working, trustworthy and love challenges, then your will be very fulfilled at Box.

Cons

No matching 401k. The lunches could be better.

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