Asana

I was on the fence about Asana initially because of the consistently low stocks, but my hiring manager and future colleagues excitedly talked to me and made me feel welcome throughout the interviewing process, which eventually won me over.

Overall pros:

• Great hybrid culture; lots of nice perks and amenities (free gym, cafe, hot breakfast and desserts, etc.) especially in the SF headquarters.
• Very structured onboarding process with a lot of product training.
• High ceiling for growth on the individual contributor level, lots of opportunities for outsized impact on the mobile team particularly.
• Board members and even the prospective CEO come into the SF office for AMAs/fireside board chats.

• I was not told during the interviewing process that the entire SF-based mobile team was laid off back in February of this year in favor of redoubling hiring efforts in Warsaw.

• Customers are churning to other collaborative work management products like Linear.

• Asana is definitely not mobile-first and lacks any in-depth editor support, both in the desktop and mobile apps. There isn't a centralized place to write and store documentation. Internally, we just use Github for technical docs and link Google Docs on Asana tasks, which seems very ad hoc.