Asana Software Engineer reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(125 total reviews)
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Dustin Moskovitz

63% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Asana with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 125 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Asana is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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125 reviews
5.0
Sep 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

* Asana (the product) makes work more stream-lined for users. As a developer, and Asana user, I get to see the impact of changes I make very day. * Collaborative colleagues - I get to work with folks within eng and beyond, and appreciate the alignment on company mission and our immediate goals * Get to work on hard product and technical problems with modern tech stack (though there is legacy code that we are slowly eliminating)

Cons

* Still dealing with technical debt from a framework change that has taken a long time to implement.

3.0
Sep 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly and helpful peers and managers Excellent experience learning to do software engineering work at a place with good engineering standards Really talented engineers Customers love the product Decently interesting technical challenges Work life balance is good, although not as good as places where there just isn’t enough work to do (e.g. LinkedIn or some teams at google)

Cons

Compensation is way below market, especially for experienced engineers. They have an unrealistic view of market comp, which means you will get limited raises and no refreshers until your initial grant finishes vesting Product oriented org means there is a lot of red tape for engineers to ship new features unless they have already been approved by the product people. Lots of tech debt Although the culture is above average, the constant patting on the back of how great the Asana culture is tends to get grating. We don’t need to keep hearing how awesome our culture is - let’s work on making it better. Lack of clarity - regarding advancement due to lack of levels, and regarding getting approval due to lack of clear hierarchy.

5.0
Jul 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1.) Very little politics or unnecessary work. You really feel like your time is spent pursuing the mission to help teams become more effective. 2.) People are really amazing. I work in software engineering and I'm impressed by how cool & thoughtful my co-workers are in addition to their engineering skills. 3.) Tying into (2), the work environment is super collaborative, meaning that I get to work with engineers (and non-engineers) far removed from my core team, which is really awesome. 4.) Culinary team is one of a kind. Food is amazing, healthy, and they put on a lot of fun, unique events. 5.) At Asana, we use the Asana product daily, which is great because seeing yourself become more productive as a result of a feature you built feels really rewarding. 6.) Using the Asana product also means that we benefit from having clarity about who's doing what by when. This really helps us get more out of our days while minimizing "status-update" type meetings that would otherwise drain a lot of time.

Cons

1.) There is some large technical debt that the company is still working with. We've come a long way towards making this a lot better, but we still have a long way to go before this debt is fully addressed. 2.) There are so many important things that we want to pursue all at once that it can sometimes feel like initiatives are understaffed/we can't work on things we really need to work on.

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