Pros: Business is doing well, seemingly in the right place at the right time. High-growth company, expanding rapidly in all dimensions, with free food and a fun environment. Charismatic CEO gets attention and buzz for the company. A new VP of Engineering is bringing maturity and leadership to the engineering organization.

Cons: If you're industry experienced (not "senior," as that's 1-2 years 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 judgment/competence demonstrated by the homegrown, tenured developers leading projects. Engineering caliber and quality of people are below Google/Microsoft levels. A surprising number of "seniors" are lacking CS fundamentals (OO design, what's cohesion, using assertions?). Some B's are hiring C's going on (... will hopefully improve as Box adopts a more Google-like model in hiring, reviews, etc.). Lots of untested legacy code, 10,000-line functions, tightly coupled, and fragile code are commonplace. Major efforts are underway to write tests and turn quality around, but it's very much a work in progress.

Pros: Nice people and good work.

Cons: Nothing much, got bored. Had to move.

Pros: - Free lunches - Lots of optional activities after working hours to join

Cons: - Crazy working hours (10:00-18:00 + unpaid overtime because of late meetings). - Preference to hire externally when it comes to staff+ engineering roles (in Poland, zero people were promoted to this level so far). - For the first year of work, your personal development is ignored (you have to work at least one year to get a promotion, and a promotion cycle happens only once a year, so management doesn't bother with you earlier). - No clear vision what people from Poland products should deliver, how teams should cooperate with each other, etc. - Switched from remote to hybrid. - Monolith in PHP and no OKRs/plans to clean it up and/or remove.