Good experience as first job but poor compensation outlook - Software Engineer Asana Employee Review

3.0
Sep 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly and helpful peers and managers Excellent experience learning to do software engineering work at a place with good engineering standards Really talented engineers Customers love the product Decently interesting technical challenges Work life balance is good, although not as good as places where there just isn’t enough work to do (e.g. LinkedIn or some teams at google)

Cons

Compensation is way below market, especially for experienced engineers. They have an unrealistic view of market comp, which means you will get limited raises and no refreshers until your initial grant finishes vesting Product oriented org means there is a lot of red tape for engineers to ship new features unless they have already been approved by the product people. Lots of tech debt Although the culture is above average, the constant patting on the back of how great the Asana culture is tends to get grating. We don’t need to keep hearing how awesome our culture is - let’s work on making it better. Lack of clarity - regarding advancement due to lack of levels, and regarding getting approval due to lack of clear hierarchy.

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Product base and new launchs. Leadership direction.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Pros

There's real enduring culture where people care about doing really good work. The culture is friendly with strong camaraderie amongst the individual employees, and managers try to do right by their reports.

Cons

Quarterly reorgs, quiet role reductions, and slowly stripping away benefits has made morale worse than ever. It may have been worthwhile if the business was getting better, but it's pretty flat and attrition is very high. With the introduction of the new CEO, Dan Rogers, there's been a clear shift to hard capitalism and people as numbers. Problems have been solved in short-sighted ways, causing discontent even within the leadership ranks. The company was losing some steam beforehand, but now it's "a ship trying to make a sharp turn and keeling over, just barely not capsizing".

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