Supportive culture and great growth opps - Anonymous employee Box Employee Review

5.0
15 Jul 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Box's culture is incredibly positive and collaborative. I really like how many opportunities for growth and development there are. Box invests heavily in its employees, providing opportunities outside your normal remit to take on new tasks and responsibilities. When you prove you're a hard and reliable worker you're rewarded here. I also really am grateful for their family focus. The Families at Box ERC is awesome and Boxers are really supportive of growing families (traditional and nontraditional ways with really good benefits) and the difficulties of managing family and work life. It's a really supportive environment and my colleagues and I often talk about how rare it is to find a company who actually seems to care about you and your family.

Cons

It would be nice if they could do a 401k matching program. ESPP is good.

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5.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Amazing product, culture and benefits

Cons

In office mandate, no need to be in an office to join Zoom meetings

5.0
15 Apr 2026
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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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