Pros
- Inflated salaries - Young culture (think new grads) - Good education fund/ Boxworks - If you are early in your career, this is a good place to get that stamp on your resumes - If you are early in your career, and know that your growth is going to be limited at a place that is struggling to get to IPO, and are okay with it, go for it! - Post IPO there will probably be a more grounded corporate identity, rather than the half startup half corporate approach at the moment - Scaling elegantly is hard no doubt, after all we have all heard of technical debt amongst other things
Kontras
- BoxWorks had Malcolm Gladwell (!!!!) as a keynote speaker talking on disruptive innovation and changing a mindset..however... - He was welcomed onstage by a highly inappropriate Ellie Goulding track - Unfortunately nobody at Box seemed to have paid any attention to the crux of what he was saying- a change in mindset is what's needed, innovation powered by radical thinking - Not a lot of the complacent attitude that is floating around - Box does hire smart, but only in limiting hires to Stanford and Berkley. Unfortunately, a lot of the radical thinkers (a particular Mr. Jobs) didn't finish university - Inexperienced recruiters pushed me and three of my peers into the customer success team- the only team that has it together across the company - Junior recruiters, so they are limited in placing you at a team that makes the most of your skill set, or are unable to place you as the team you would be an asset to does not exist - As a consequence, there are a lot of incompetencies, and talent that is so underutilized and stifled by the constant upheaval, that they have to schedule at least 50 meetings a day to get people to acknowledge work needs to be done - And then chase them around to get the work done (as simple as getting the EA's to book a room, get you equipment that they are responsible for) - A lot of the why should I do it, its not my problem mentality - Customers have echoed they use Box as it's impossible to shift/move all your content elsewhere once its in there i.s. forced use for a product - Internal movement= impossible (it's encouraged, but do you want to wait 6-12 months?)