Pros: - Leadership puts a lot of thought into how to support its employees. - Folks tend to think things through and create solid systems, both technically and process-wise. - Strong product vision and investment in product development. - One of the leaders in the work management space, with a huge market opportunity. - Mission-driven; has a strong set of company values that folks reference and live by. - Execs are very smart and fairly transparent and seem to actually care about employees and the mission.

Cons: - Folks can be overly diligent at times; not everything needs a process, a survey, or a 3-page document. - Product vision is very ambitious, but there's a lot of basic-ish functionality that is still surprisingly absent (most of it is planned, though). - The stock price took even more of a hit than many other SaaS companies during the 2022 downturn. (To be clear, I think it will come back up. I put "neutral" for the 6-month business outlook, but I think the long-term outlook is very positive.)

Pros: Smart engineers from all over the industry. Strong learning and sharing culture. Lots of knowledge willing to be shared if you ask. Jerk ICs get weeded out quickly. Engineering tooling is mature. High engineering standards. Strong ownership (AoR) culture. Good work-life balance. Shares are at an all-time low, so I guess joining now has high upside if you believe in the company.

Cons: Asana went from being an industry leader to being an industry follower. Comp & benefits are stuck in the 2010s. Career opportunities are scarce, with external hires seemingly preferred. There has been high eng IC turnover recently. A cringey, bland corpo culture has taken over. Decisions are made at a glacial pace, often perplexing, and announced with Ballmer-esque flair. The company grew too fast during COVID, went through layoffs, and is now repeating the same mistake. Senior management is afraid of accountability and full of excuses for why the company is trending downward. Competitors have mostly recovered and are outpacing us, so stop blaming COVID or economic headwinds and own up. Upmarket Work Graph and AI can't be the entire strategy while competitors outmaneuver us. A bloated management structure has many ineffective middle managers. There are a few toxic or completely useless eng-adjacent departments where cronyism has completely taken over.

Pros: There's a lot of hard and interesting work to do, largely driven by our growth and the fact that the problem still isn't solved. Company leadership is competent and open, and this trickles down to the company having a high degree of trust throughout. This means that my day-to-day work at Asana feels very collaborative, whether I'm working with people directly on my team or elsewhere in the company. Even in the strongest disagreements I have with colleagues, it's quite clear that everyone is trying to do what's best for Asana and our customers, and we're just disagreeing about the best way to do this. On top of all this, I really enjoy working at a company whose business model is to build a great product and sell it, rather than being advertising-based.

Cons: There have been a number of times when we've been too clever, doing either engineering or planning in an "Asana" way, only to have to learn the hard way why things are normally done differently. We say that one of our engineering principles is simplicity, but this is something that doesn't come naturally, and we still need to work on it.