No direction, weak leadership - Engineering Manager Asana Employee Review

2.0
Feb 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Base salary is competitive with any FAANG. Some intelligent, driven, people hear if you can find them. Work life balance is really good. I’d venture that almost everyone in engineering is working less than 50 hours per week.

Cons

Go to market strategy has been all over the place. Little conviction. Leaders do not trust their teams to get work done independently. You will be micromanaged by your director and above. No appetite for risk. I was hopeful bc of all the high reviews here and on blind, but it’s very demotivating place to work. For a company trying to “empower the world’s teams to work together effortlessly”, it is incredibly hard to get anything done here. The tech stack is a liability because the documentation and training is so hard to grok. Lots of middle management than doesn’t really add any value. They get in the way more than they help.

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3.0
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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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