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US-based cloud content management and collaboration platform, publicly traded on the NYSE.

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About the company

Legal name

Box, Inc.

Founded

2005

Headquarters

Redwood City, California, USA

Industry

Cloud content management (SaaS)

Employees

About 2,912

CEO

Aaron Levie

Market Cap

About US$4.15 billion

Listed on

NYSE: BOX

Website

box.com

Box, Inc. is a US cloud content management company founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, it provides a SaaS platform for secure file storage, sharing, collaboration and workflow, and has expanded into AI-powered intelligent content management for enterprises.

The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015 and trades under the ticker BOX. For fiscal year 2026 Box reported record revenue of US$1.177 billion, up 8% year over year, and it carries a market capitalization of roughly US$4.15 billion as of July 2026. Box employs about 2,900 people.

Aaron Levie serves as Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, with co-founder Dylan Smith as Chief Financial Officer and Olivia Nottebohm as Chief Operating Officer. Bethany Mayer chairs the board. Box operates offices across the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada, serving enterprise customers worldwide.

Key People

Aaron Levie

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

Dylan Smith

Chief Financial Officer & Co-founder

Olivia Nottebohm

Chief Operating Officer

Bethany Mayer

Chair of the Board of Directors

Interview process at Box

Interview experience

Poor (low sample)

Interview difficulty

Difficult

Interview process length

Not enough data

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Box Interview Questions & Answers

Q: Design an out-of-order windowed stream processor.

A: Talk through how you'd buffer late events, key them into time windows, and emit results once a watermark passes. Cover the trade-off between latency and completeness when data arrives out of order.

Answer by AI
  • Assign each event to a window by its event time, and hold windows open until a watermark says late data is unlikely.
  • Keep per-window state in a store that can spill to disk, and support a grace period so stragglers still count.
  • Discuss trade-offs: shorter watermarks cut latency but drop more late events; longer ones raise accuracy at a memory cost.

Q: Implement a leaky-bucket rate limiter.

A: Describe a bucket that drains at a fixed rate and rejects or queues requests once it's full. Walk through the counter, the refill timer, and how you'd make it thread-safe.

Answer by AI
  • Model a bucket with a capacity and a steady leak rate; each request adds a drop and is allowed only if the bucket isn't full.
  • Track the last-checked timestamp and compute how much has leaked since, rather than running a background timer per bucket.
  • Guard the counter with a lock or an atomic operation so concurrent requests can't oversubscribe the limit.

Q: Diagnose failures via SSH across large log files.

A: Show a methodical approach: reach the right host, narrow the time window, and use streaming tools so you don't load huge files into memory. Explain how you'd correlate errors across services.

Answer by AI
  • Start from the symptom and timestamp, then grep and tail the relevant window instead of opening the whole file.
  • Use tools that stream line by line so memory stays flat on multi-gigabyte logs, and pipe through filters to isolate the error.
  • Correlate request IDs or timestamps across services to trace a failure end to end rather than guessing.

Q: Identify and fix a deadlock in locked code.

A: Explain how two threads can each hold one lock and wait for the other, then how you'd break the cycle. Cover consistent lock ordering and timeouts as fixes.

Answer by AI
  • Spot the cycle: thread A holds lock 1 and wants lock 2 while thread B holds lock 2 and wants lock 1.
  • Fix it by acquiring locks in a single global order everywhere, so no cycle can form.
  • As a backstop, use try-lock with a timeout and back off, or shrink the critical section so locks are held briefly.

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Box Salaries in the United States (Updated 2026)

Software Engineer (L4, entry)

L4 / entry level

$196K total comp/yr (median)

Software Engineer (L5)

L5 / mid level

$198K total comp/yr (median)

Software Engineer (L6)

L6 / senior

$231K total comp/yr (median)

Software Engineer (L7)

L7 / staff

$265K total comp/yr (median)

Software Engineer (L8)

L8 / senior staff

$375K total comp/yr (median)

Software Engineer (L9)

L9 / principal

$526K total comp/yr (median)

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Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Mental and behavioral health support
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Gym and wellness reimbursement
Fertility and family-forming support
20 weeks paid maternity leave
12 weeks paid parental leave
4-week, 100% paid sabbatical after 7+ years
Equity grant for new hires
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
401(k) plan (no employer match)
Learning and development programs

Latest News & Updates

May 26, 2026

Box reports first quarter fiscal 2027 results with record revenue

Box posted Q1 FY2027 revenue of about $306 million, up 11% year over year, and raised its full-year fiscal 2027 outlook to roughly $1.28 billion.

#earnings #BOX #AIgrowth

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April 28, 2026

Box launches Box Automate to orchestrate agentic workflows

Box released Box Automate, a no-code, AI-enhanced workflow tool that routes content-centric tasks across people, Box Agents, and enterprise systems using a drag-and-drop builder.

#productlaunch #automation #AIagents

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April 2, 2026

Box unveils the Box Agent and Box AI Studio enhancements

Box announced general availability of the Box Agent, which takes natural-language instructions to reason and complete complex tasks, plus Box AI Studio enhancements letting admins build custom agents for Enterprise Advanced customers.

#BoxAI #agents #enterprise

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March 3, 2026

Box reports fourth quarter and fiscal 2026 financial results

Box closed fiscal 2026 with $1.18 billion in annual revenue and Q4 revenue of $306 million, and said its new Enterprise Advanced tier already accounted for about 10% of revenue.

#earnings #fiscal2026 #BOX

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August 26, 2025

Box reports second quarter fiscal 2026 results and raises full-year guidance

Box reported Q2 FY2026 revenue of $294 million, up 9% year over year, with remaining performance obligations of $1.5 billion, and raised its full-year revenue guidance on strengthening AI adoption.

#earnings #guidanceraise #BOX

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Box FAQ

Box runs a cloud content management platform for secure file storage, sharing, collaboration and workflow, and it has expanded into AI-powered content management for enterprises.