I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Asana in Mar 2022
Interview
Asana had me do an initial recruiter screen, followed by a peer manager interview about management techniques, followed by an architecture screen that included some database theory, followed by a six and a half hour onsite that included talking to the hiring manager, some direct reports, cross-functional teammates, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you conduct 1:1s?
How would you design tables in a SQL database for this situation?
(and a bunch of standard manager questions -- how have you helped people grow, how do you prioritize projects, what is your experience with hiring, standard stuff)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Asana (Reykjavík) in Jun 2025
Interview
It is a total of seven interviews, The focus is on coaching reports (be prepared to talk about your history in doing that) and some technical competency (I was asked to design a simple dTa model to support a single function)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a data model to support a has_access(userid,taskid) function.
I had an interview with a recruiter from New York for a position in Reykjavik.
I was totally ghosted after it. She didn’t reply my mails with requests for a follow-up or feedback.
Don’t waste your time with this company.
Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Asana overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Asana as a Engineering Manager according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
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