An incredibly fun and well run company - Software Engineer Asana Employee Review

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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5.0
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Pros

Product base and new launchs. Leadership direction.

Cons

Competitive market, direction of the company aligns to growth.

3.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Pros

There's real enduring culture where people care about doing really good work. The culture is friendly with strong camaraderie amongst the individual employees, and managers try to do right by their reports.

Cons

Quarterly reorgs, quiet role reductions, and slowly stripping away benefits has made morale worse than ever. It may have been worthwhile if the business was getting better, but it's pretty flat and attrition is very high. With the introduction of the new CEO, Dan Rogers, there's been a clear shift to hard capitalism and people as numbers. Problems have been solved in short-sighted ways, causing discontent even within the leadership ranks. The company was losing some steam beforehand, but now it's "a ship trying to make a sharp turn and keeling over, just barely not capsizing".

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