Asana

I mostly love it here, and it's easily the healthiest environment I've worked in.

The engineers are generally mature, smart, and productive. Some of the technology choices are idiosyncratic, but the product is well engineered. Revenue is going up and hiring is aggressive, so it doesn't feel stagnant. People spend a reasonable amount of time in the office and have full lives outside of work.

The product has its flaws, but it does feel like an improvement over other tools and workflows. The business model is 'you pay us money, we give you product,' which means that to win, we have to build good stuff, not sell ads.

The whole product is dogfooded intensively.

Overall, I just really like working here, and I think the product is solid.

"Roadmap week" (every 6 months) doesn't seem like an improvement over standard "quarterly planning," and in practice, it seems to discourage teams from being agile, as much as leadership claims it shouldn't.

(At the same time, planning at this scale is just inherently hard, so I would be surprised if anyone does it well.)

I don't 100% agree with the product direction. Asana still needs to be supplemented with Google Docs, spreadsheets, and Slack for the best possible collaboration.

There are a few competitors with nicer aesthetics and a more flexible approach to data, rather than having everything be tasks. So, it's not a slam dunk that Asana will win the fight.

All the engineers use Chrome. Performance of the app in other browsers is not good.

I can't think of anything right now.