Asana Software Engineer interview experience (2019)

Asana Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Vancouver, BCPosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with a recruiter call that felt friendly, but the overall experience came across as very template-driven and robotic—most of the emails were scheduled, pre-written send-outs.

After that, I took a coding test using the “hungry rabbit” challenge that seemed to be used for a lot of other applicants. I completed it, but I never even received a follow-up response—no rejection, no feedback, nothing.

The real problem for me was the specific type of algorithm they asked for. I’m self-taught and hadn’t really needed to learn how to traverse a matrix-style problem, so I struggled with the puzzle even though the rest of my approach to coding isn’t about memorizing CS trivia. The test felt very algorithm-focused and, honestly, mismatched for a SaaS role where the core

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Asana Software Engineer interview experience

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