Asana Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked to design a famous platform, which set one expectation for how the later rounds might feel.

Then the onsite turned into a mess. The first onsite interview was a long, three-hour challenge where they gave me something to solve and stepped back while I worked. After that, I was expecting two system design interviews because of what the recruiter said in a prep email, and I even held onto that framing while preparing. Instead, I hit LeetCode-heavy rounds.

In one of those coding rounds, I managed to solve it, but the second question was extremely hard and timed to 30 minutes. The