I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Box (Redwood City, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
One Telephonic round and 5 onsite interviews.
I had telephonic round with Engineering Manager with one programming question and discuss about background and my current project information.
I went onsite after week, where I have 5 back to back interview including one with hiring manager(on lunhc).
Most of the question focus on designing and code review.
Overall good experience and focus on practical knowledge instead of programming questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design caching system on whiteboard.
Design inmemorydb with code.
Background with hiring manager
Gave me the code to review and fix the code with developer.
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.
