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4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

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Dustin Moskovitz

65% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jul 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Leadership support, room to grow. - Can bring full self to work. - Safe environment to speak up if you don't agree with something or want to challenge a point. No one assumes their way is the best way. - Smart, fun, kind people, feels like a community of peers vs siloed teams. - Great benefits! - Growing quickly and internationally. - Beautiful office space(s), with all the work space gadgets you want.

Cons

- Nontraditional business hierarchical system, can take some time getting used to navigating. - Potentially more competitive base salaries at similarly tenured companies, but benefits make up for this. - No 401k matching at this time.

5.0
Apr 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

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.

Cons

"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.

5.0
Apr 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Really strong executive leadership in all parts of the company * Great culture, always self-reflective and willing to evolve. * Business growth has really accelerated over the past couple of years: upside! * Managers are evaluated on growth of their reports, not any particular team's deliverables, so they're really looking out for your growth. * You can design your own growth path, not confined to just one or two tracks like at most companies * Engineers are given a lot of trust, even on non-technical things * Surrounded by people who think "working together effectively" is an interesting problem

Cons

* It's harder to get a clear checklist of "do these X things and get a raise" * Hard to know when to JFDI vs. get feedback

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