Box Reviews
Updated 16 Jan 2020
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Aaron Levie
330 Ratings
Pros
"Great culture, great learning opportunity" (in 39 reviews)
"Free food *if* you work in Redwood city" (in 33 reviews)
Cons
"There is no 401k match and honestly Box can do better with making an initiative to do that" (in 21 reviews)
"No 401K matching but awesome ESPP plan" (in 17 reviews)
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time
Pros
very good package and cool working enviroment
Cons
time problem sometimes else very good
Advice to Management
try to improve
Box2017-09-26"Great!"
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Pros
Box was a great place to work. Strong leadership. Interesting projects.
Cons
Middle management does not always provide clear direction.
Box2020-01-15"Great company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time for more than a year
Pros
- CEO really cares about the culture, your growth, and opportunity - Lots of opportunity to network and get involved - Can create roles if you see a need for it and present it accordingly - Great on-boarding, lots of resources
Cons
- Can tend to promote people based of personality and not performance - Opportunity for diversity inclusion - Lack of management training - Culture and diversity is really emphasized but needs to be enforced -Have witnessed a few colleagues leave due to cultural slander and negative political experiences
Advice to Management
Do not just make diversity and inclusion training mandatory for executives, but middle management. Implement a clear form of evaluation for promotional opportunities. Do not talk down certain employees when they are not around. If there is opportunity for growth, pull them aside and address ways to enhance/grow.
Box2020-01-06"Good, not great place to work"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Box has a great culture. They hire friendly people and actively work to create a welcoming and open environment.
Cons
Frequent technical struggles hinder development. Productivity tools can be unreliable. Layers of bureaucracy have built up over time which slow down work without making processes safer.
Box2020-01-16"Great company"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time for less than a year
Pros
Great people to work with, managers who care about your future and work life balance
Cons
No 401k match is the only con
Box2020-01-02"Great place"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time for more than 5 years
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Great culture, great learning opportunity
Cons
None at all great place to be
Box2019-12-31- Helpful (3)
"Great Talent But Lacking Experience"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Box full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Best place I’ve ever worked for. Great manager. Great culture. I love coming into work every day and the flexibility it provides for me to work from home a majority of the time. Box really goes out of its way to treat its people right. Our Japan team is amazing. Austin is a beautiful office and team. All the Sales folks in the Mid-West are killing it.
Cons
They focus too much on making people happy which in turns makes people too comfortable. An environment that lacks accountability and execution. Fosters complacency.
Advice to Management
1. Hire more experienced senior leaders. As much as Box cares about internal promotions, you need to hire the best. 2. Give more equity. Nobody will continue to stay with a declining stock price 3. More accountability. Why do the Sales And Marketing teams seem so inexperienced and lazy? When sales and pipeline targets are missed, why isn’t any one feeling the pain? I’ve visited SF sales folks and they are watching YouTube all day long. Austin teams continually miss their targets and nothing happens. Europe is just terrible. Japan is just wowzers! 4. Why do we continue to keep the Vice Presidents we have when we are seeing no results? Is this the lack of Aaron’s experience hiring solid leaders? Why is Jeetu developing features that aren’t game changing. Not only can’t we deliver parity with other products, the new features are meaningless. Why isn’t Jeetu listening to the field? 5. Why is it difficult to be so darn profitable? Bad leadership! Our main office in California has so many roles that could be outsourced. Why do we have an Accounts Payable, Recruiting and Engineering team in the most expensive place on Earth? That’s a great example of making poor leadership decisions. But then you see these execs cashing in big RSUs. Again, nobody to blame since there is no accountability. 6. Teach the organization how to be mindful of spending. But then again, this comes back to experienced leadership. The teams in headquarters investing in tools but the processes never change. How is that good for anyone? 7. Nobody ever gets fired. Fire people who just don’t deliver. Get rid of all the Sales, Marketing,and Engineering fat that doesn’t deliver. Why are we so scared to hold people to expectations. This is an imbalance to the force and why top and bottom line numbers never improve. And management, yes I have raised this and because of no accountability, you just get upset employees who leave out of frustration. I really wish I could stay but its come to a point that until something drastically changes, expect more of the same.
Show MoreBox2019-12-25 "Benefits"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time
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Positive overall compared to other tech companies
Cons
None that I can think of
Box2019-12-10"Incredible Culture"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Box full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
I love working at Box because of the people. Box has done a great job growing and expanding while also keeping each employee feel like they are important to the overall success of the company.
Cons
- Like anything the product has it's challenges, mainly the pace of innovation - Given the pivot made from file sync and share to content management it has been challenging to keep the market abreast and updated
Advice to Management
- Find useless jobs that can be cut. Many people on the sales support and client services side can be reactive, there is an opportunity to consolidate. - Make some acquisitions that can immediately differentiate Box from the pack.
Box2019-12-05- Helpful (1)
"Box EMEA is world'd apart from Box US.........."
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Box full-time
Pros
* Free food * Relaxed culture * Good benefits * Almost every software in the world has been bought for you
Cons
* Hardly anyone in EMEA sales across the board is near target * Huge amounts of change an attempts to restructure * Customers don't seem to like the product or want to engage sales * EMEA leadership.. well there really isn't any * Market place now moved on with Msft and Google
Advice to Management
* If you want EMEA to succeed hire some good Saas sales leaders * Would honestly say that selling the company as quick as possible is the best plan * Try to change the culture to a winning one
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