Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
October 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
- Coding Challenge:
Asana cares more about the approach and design choices here, as the platform they want you to code in does not allow you to compile and run tests.
- Technical Phone Screen:
This was done via Google Docs. Again, the interviewer cares more about the thought process than the code itself.
- Remote Onsite Interview:
This round consists of three different rounds.
The first round was very much like the technical phone screen. The second round was an individual coding challenge. The third round was going over the individual coding challenge. Unfortunately, this round is where the code actually matters. If you cannot code out a valid solution, then it does not really matter if you are able to solve it together with the interviewer for the third round.
Questions
Why Asana?
Each round consisted of a coding question and system design.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Asana Software Engineer (Internship) role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
11%
Pass Rate
Asana's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive67%
Neutral11%
Negative22%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Asana's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in San Francisco, California.
Asana Work Experiences
5.0
Good company, great people
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
August 28, 2024
Pros: Engineers at Asana have the resources and room to be excellent mentors.
As an early-career software engineer here, I feel like I am very well supported and grown.
Cons: Motivation has been down lately due to our stock price.
5.0
A great place to work and grow
Engineering Manager • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 21, 2019
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.
5.0
I worried I wouldn't find a larger values-aligned company to work for
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
November 19, 2024
Pros: Coming from a small company (~20 people), I was worried about finding a larger company that had the same values: trust of individual employees, respect for each other, psychological safety, the value of diversity on teams, working in an organized way with clear roles and responsibilities, etc. I was lucky to find Asana! It's a much larger organization, but it's amazing how much they've been able to scale the things mentioned above that I find important to my day-to-day experience of being at work. And these values really do seem to go all the way up to the top leadership, rather than just being "window dressing". Asana is not a perfect place, but especially right now, it's a very, very good place to be.
Cons: For those who don't like process or tend to work in a stream-of-consciousness or intuitive way, you may find some of the structure and tooling at Asana annoying or cumbersome. I'd encourage you to lean into trying some of the things to see what you learn, and then challenging the things that are truly not useful. (Asana seems open to changing tools and processes as well!) Also, sometimes decisions can be overly considered, but it's something that leadership is aware of and working on.
- 5.0Good company, great peopleSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 28, 2024Pros: Engineers at Asana have the resources and room to be excellent mentors. As an early-career software engineer here, I feel like I am very well supported and grown.Cons: Motivation has been down lately due to our stock price.
- 5.0A great place to work and growEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 21, 2019Pros: 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.
- 5.0I worried I wouldn't find a larger values-aligned company to work forSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 19, 2024Pros: Coming from a small company (~20 people), I was worried about finding a larger company that had the same values: trust of individual employees, respect for each other, psychological safety, the value of diversity on teams, working in an organized way with clear roles and responsibilities, etc. I was lucky to find Asana! It's a much larger organization, but it's amazing how much they've been able to scale the things mentioned above that I find important to my day-to-day experience of being at work. And these values really do seem to go all the way up to the top leadership, rather than just being "window dressing". Asana is not a perfect place, but especially right now, it's a very, very good place to be.Cons: For those who don't like process or tend to work in a stream-of-consciousness or intuitive way, you may find some of the structure and tooling at Asana annoying or cumbersome. I'd encourage you to lean into trying some of the things to see what you learn, and then challenging the things that are truly not useful. (Asana seems open to changing tools and processes as well!) Also, sometimes decisions can be overly considered, but it's something that leadership is aware of and working on.
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