Great people, tech, and processes - Account Executive Box Employee Review

4.0
May 16, 2022
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Pros

Great people who are willing to lend a hand to help no matter your timezone is. Easy to bring in your execs to meetings to help you get the deal across the line. Lots of great tech that is talking to each other to help you get your job done efficiently. A product with an interesting vision that is challenging the status quo of how companies interact with corporate content.

Cons

Tough sell with a fierce competition against a perceived free. Being part of a launch team in a new market is causing challenges to get airtime with prospects as most of them don't recognise the name. Spending a lot of hours in cold calling and cold emailing with a small conversion rate from contact to first meeting. Mid-market is a tricky patch as most companies are stabilising their platforms and not yet in the innovation journey.

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5.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

Amazing culture, great benefits, teams truly care about each other, and leadership listens to employees.

Cons

AI is taking over the world and software so fast, making things more complex for products to keep up with demand.

5.0
Apr 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Working at Box offers a strong mix of career growth, meaningful impact, and modern tech exposure—you get to sell and support a platform that’s actually solving real-world problems across government, enterprise, and regulated industries, not just pushing software for the sake of it. The company’s focus on AI-powered content management, security, and workflow automation keeps you close to where the market is heading, which builds highly transferable skills. At the same time, the culture tends to emphasize collaboration, autonomy, and ownership, giving you room to develop your own strategies (like your targeted campaigns and use-case-driven outreach) while still having the backing of a well-established platform with strong product-market fit.

Cons

Working at Box isn’t without its challenges—one of the biggest is that the product can be harder to differentiate at a surface level, especially against tools like Microsoft (SharePoint/OneDrive) or Dropbox, which means you have to work much harder in sales to educate prospects on deeper workflow and security value. Sales cycles can be long and complex, requiring patience and persistence with multiple stakeholders. Internally, like many growing tech companies, priorities and messaging can shift as new products (AI, Extract, etc.) roll out, which can create some ambiguity. And because Box is a platform play, success often depends on how well customers adopt and expand usage, so deals don’t always feel “done” at close—you’re thinking long-term from day one.

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