Asana·Software Engineer

Asana Software Engineer interview experience

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Vancouver, BCPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I scheduled a technical interview and went into it expecting something calmer—but I’d never really done a process like this before.

I had about 30 minutes for an algorithm question, and I worked through a recursive approach. As I was about to explain why it wasn’t the best solution and iterate toward something cleaner, the interviewers moved me to the second part: a system design question.

The system design portion didn’t quite land the way I wanted because the questions felt a bit leading, and I kept losing momentum on my own step-by-step thinking. I still felt the interaction was fairly informative, though, and after the interview I asked my recruiter for feedback. They shared notes from the discussion, which helped

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