Box·Software Engineer

Box Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process moved through several rounds and took long enough that I felt like I was in “interview mode” for days rather than hours.

I started with a recruiter conversation, then went into the onsite. One of the early onsite parts was a coding session where I implemented a leaky bucket rate limiter. The first version was straightforward, but I had to evolve it to add multithreading support, and the interviewer provided a class template. The twist for me was that I needed to write tests as I went, not just the core logic.

After that, there was a deep technical round where the discussion got very detailed. I went into it thinking it might be more familiar, but it covered areas that I hadn’t worked with before; I also felt

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