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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 23, 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Redwood City, CA

      Other Senior Software Engineer interview reviews for Box

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 23, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Box (Redwood City, CA)

      Interview

      They have very young children interviewing senior developers. Some kids appear to have an overwhelming amount of arrogance coupled with an underwhelming IQ level. I asked one of them for some water and he actually said that there is no bottled water on this floor and we can just get it after the interview (a cup and a water cooler would've have sufficed). That gave me an unsettling idea of what I was dealing with. The biggest issue I had was with the elevator design question. I actually did very well on the hands on coding exercise. I don't know how I did on the algorithm question. I thought I did well, but that could just be my opinion. For the elevator design question my mistake may have been coming up with a very elaborate design. Unfortunately, the youngster interviewing me wanted me to write some very specific code on the whiteboard, possibly some trivial queue processing code. I have more than a decades worth of experience designing scalable and fault tolerant systems but was unable to prove that to him. This person had a very thick accent and communication with him was rather confusing. He said this was an open ended design question, but I am guessing he thought this question had only 1 answer in the form of some simple code on the whiteboard. I am very glad I didn't get the job (no, not sour grapes). The work culture appeared to have subtle signs of toxicity. From the discussion with one of the developers it appears the codebase is a giant monolithic mess which they are trying to desperately untangle. However, if you are enticed by the unlimited candies, free exotic softdrinks and free food then just practice the answers to these 3 simple questions (they actually can't come up with new questions): elevator design (50 floors 4 elevators), unival tree, in-memory db/cache

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      elevator design
      Answer question
      22

      Application

      I interviewed at Box

      Interview

      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

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 16, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      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.
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 15, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Warsaw, Masovia
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Box (Warsaw, Masovia)

      Interview

      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.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      System design - design elevator.
      Answer question