I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Box (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter on Linkedin. I wasn't very familiar with the company and had no idea they were doing so well.
I scheduled a phone conversation with the recruiter where we talked for at least 45 minutes about my background and what I was looking for. Then I had a 1h phone screen where I was asked some theoretical questions, and a hashmap implementation among other things - no actual screenshare coding.
A few days later I got an email about traveling to palo alto for an in person interview.
The interview was a great experience, everybody I talked to seemed bright and happy to be there. In between interviews, I got a tour of the offices which was pretty cool.
It took almost a couple of weeks for them to get back to me after that - unfortunately I didn't get it.
Straightforward. They're looking for your approach towards a problem and how efficient your solution is, they don't care about any coding syntax hiccups.
There were multiple questions (not all LC)
- Unix Commands
- Identify Synchronization Issue in the given code
- Find K Most Frequent words across all files in a given dir path
- Flip Kth Bit
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Box in Feb 2026
Interview
Short screening with HR. Followed by dropdown implementation fix for frontend. Then to implement todo list via React. Last full-stack to implement Cart logic with pseudocode. Interviews around one hour long. And interviewers are pretty chill and ready to help you in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a cart logic specification document intended for a backend development team to use as an implementation guide.
At first I applied via job board, then recruiter screening, one week leater System design interview and Coding interview. I get declined at this step with quiet big feedback. All take around 3 weeks. And meeting in summarize was 4 hours.
