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: People are generally easy to work with. Lots of opportunity for growth and impact. Employees are treated well and respected.

Cons: - Some custom company processes which weren't scaling well with the company, but it feels like we are addressing those. - Better career path for senior engineers/ICs. It doesn't feel like there is as much room for larger impact without switching into management, with most people wanting to move into management instead of staying an IC. There are few high-level IC roles. - It's not as easy for experienced engineers joining from other companies to make an impact because of custom parts of the tech stack.

Pros: Good people. Easy to use product.

Cons: Lack of vision and strategy