Working here has made me a better engineer, but also a better person - Software Developer Asana Employee Review

5.0
Mar 2, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

When I was younger, I was more abrasive - being right was more important than being kind. I've been at Asana for 3+ years now and I think it's been the biggest growth opportunity of my life - being surrounded by people who are so smart they'd be intimidating, but they're incredibly nice, helpful and humble? That rubs off on you. You realize that teams genuinely work better when they trust each other to be kind. And it doesn't mean you can't be 100% honest - I've had co-workers give me incredibly constructive feedback, but if they hadn't been as empathetic I probably would have gotten defensive, rather than really learned from it. I could go on - about the mission, about the food, about the distributed responsibility system - but I think that for me the one more salient factor is a culture that doesn't just pay lip service to kindness and empathy, but practices it, trains it, hones it. And if studies about the effects of psychological safety on teamwork are to be believed, it might just be our secret weapon.

Cons

It becomes really, really hard imagining working somewhere that a) doesn't have the same passion for inclusive culture and b) doesn't use Asana to get work done. I don't even know how that would work!

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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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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