Extremely fresh managers and low compensation, but good mission and people - Anonymous employee Asana Employee Review

3.0
Jan 16, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• The mission is legit and most people do care about helping other teams thrive/succeed by using the product. • Higher management is full of smart & experienced people. Lots to learn from if you try hard enough to learn from it. • Software is internally used to manage your daily workload (and it works!) • Your teammates are generally fun • Lots of opportunities to grow your skill-set if you're in Ops

Cons

• People managers are generally inexperienced and given way too much trust • "Transparency" existed for a minute and then was wiped out of the organization • Overly serious about itself and how playful it is, but never really feels adult • Conscious Leadership Group never stops feels like a Corporate Philosophy • Compensation is way below market and receiving positive adjustments to that in a way that feels "timely" is almost impossible • HR/People Ops problems rarely get fixed and are swept deep under the rug • You will work more hours a day than you'd probably expect, partly because there some how aren't enough people to do the work and the work will still be expected of you.

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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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