Box·Software Engineer

Box Software Engineer interview experience

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PolandPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Box Software Engineer interview felt like a classic LeetCode-style journey, but with an emphasis more on data structures than algorithms.

The first technical screen ran about two hours, and the interviewer joined at the start and again at the end just to discuss results. The next coding/DSA round lasted about an hour with the interviewer on the call the whole time, followed by a separate LLD interview and then a behavioral interview with the hiring manager.

The LLD round was the most distracting moment for me—the interviewer’s webcam wasn’t even on. The hiring manager also threw me off badly: they misunderstood the context of a project I’d discussed and, rather than asking for clarification, accused me of lying. Even though

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