I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Box in Mar 2014
Interview
Started with three phone-screens (one general with recruiter, and two technical ones). Then had a 5-hour onsite technical interview. Two hours of that were my coding up a significant problem that they asked. I had been told about this, and asked to bring a laptop with an IDE.
Everyone seemed extremely pleasant, and professional. My impression was that they trained the people there for interviews, and/or placed a lot of value on giving candidates a good experience. It was a difficult/challenging but fair interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were several very detailed coding types of questions in my favorite language.
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.
