I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Asana (Warsaw, Masovia) in Mar 2025
Interview
Overall positive experience, with some minor nuances.
The process consists of:
1. Recruiter call (30 mins - regular stuff)
2. Screening interview (1 hour - 1 LeetCode medium task + quick design of one of the Asana features). I've passed, but the recruiter told me that something wasn't ideal in terms of communication. When I read the feedback itself, I didn't find anything serious, just some common communication stuff that can happen to anyone, especially during the online call, but what can be said that the interviewer was very scrupulous and was pretty much analysing every word of mine :)
3. Interview panel:
- Systems interview: some task for bash/cli commands that later turned into a fairly quick system design discussion + classic system design task. Interviewers were nice and I think I did well overall
- Coding interview: 90 mins of coding alone. This is the part I didn't manage to handle well, since I started from the wrong side (wanted to iterate over the approach later). Once the time passed, interviewers re-join and you're discussing your solution/potential improvements. The interviewer was somewhat a little cheeky and annoying, I'd say. Solved 3.5/5 of the features and explained how the ideal solution would look like.
- HM interview: typical behavioral interview, liked the guy conducting the round.
- Design interview: not sure if the "design" is the right word for this, since it consists of another typical LeetCode medium question + OOP-like design of one famous game. The interviewer was super polite and nice.
Overall the interview wasn't the easiest one, while I wouldn't say it was hard - just somewhat specific. There was also a guide provided by the recruiter, which explains what you should prepare and actually turned out to be quite helpful. I wouldn't say I failed the interview panel (it was good overall), apparently it wasn't enough to meet the bar for that particular role :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. LeetCode medium problems about arrays
2. Design of a famous social platform
3. OOP design of a famous game
4. Coding a console ASCII printer
5. Typical behavioural questions, e.g. your most successful/challenging project and various situations at work
Very nice and well-structured recruitment process from an HR perspective, with full interview rounds covering a wide range of topics. The highlight was the opportunity to speak directly with engineers from the company, which gave great insight into the team and the role. Unfortunately, the behavioral interview did not go as well as expected, as I did not showcase my experience and strengths strongly enough, which ultimately led to not moving forward in the process.
I applied online. I interviewed at Asana (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2025
Interview
1. Coding round and a system design round.
2. Security related round
3. 2 hour coding round for an OOP coding where I was expected to write classes and methods and explain the logic and time complexity.
4. Hiring Manager round for project deep dives.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Return the kth closest point from an input point.
Well structured, in person interview. Phone screen, followed by onsite. Onsite was split into 4 interviews spanning 5 hours. This included system design, behavioural interviews and two coding rounds of one and two hour duration.