Great culture & Experience overall, some challenges with decision making - Anonymous employee Box Employee Review

4.0
14 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Box is an amazing culture. The people are super smart, but beyond that, they really do care about each other, are exceptionally warm and friendly and absolutely committed to each others success. It's a high energy, fast paced, Get Sh*t done culture that is maturing in determining how to prioritize the goals and focus for employees to ensure everyone is linked to the mission. The CEO, Aaron Levie is energetic, passionate about business and the people and is growing greatly as a leader. Definitely an amazing company and I'm grateful to have worked here. The people are a great differentiator and make the craziness at times worth it all.

Cons

There is not always alignment around decisions and degrees of freedom in making decisions at the leadership level. There is unnecessary thrash at times in getting things done due to this misalignment on R&R's or expectations.

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Amazing product, culture and benefits

Cons

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Pros

Working at Box offers a strong mix of career growth, meaningful impact, and modern tech exposure—you get to sell and support a platform that’s actually solving real-world problems across government, enterprise, and regulated industries, not just pushing software for the sake of it. The company’s focus on AI-powered content management, security, and workflow automation keeps you close to where the market is heading, which builds highly transferable skills. At the same time, the culture tends to emphasize collaboration, autonomy, and ownership, giving you room to develop your own strategies (like your targeted campaigns and use-case-driven outreach) while still having the backing of a well-established platform with strong product-market fit.

Cons

Working at Box isn’t without its challenges—one of the biggest is that the product can be harder to differentiate at a surface level, especially against tools like Microsoft (SharePoint/OneDrive) or Dropbox, which means you have to work much harder in sales to educate prospects on deeper workflow and security value. Sales cycles can be long and complex, requiring patience and persistence with multiple stakeholders. Internally, like many growing tech companies, priorities and messaging can shift as new products (AI, Extract, etc.) roll out, which can create some ambiguity. And because Box is a platform play, success often depends on how well customers adopt and expand usage, so deals don’t always feel “done” at close—you’re thinking long-term from day one.

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