Asana interview questions

Showing 1–24 of 24 results

• Answer Manager Behavioral PromptsMedium

  This question evaluates leadership, communication, mentorship, conflict-resolution, and ownership competencies by prompting examples of project contribution, mentoring, stakeholder conflict handling, and system or process improvements.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipOnsite
• Compute Products Excluding Each IndexMedium

  This question evaluates array manipulation skills, arithmetic reasoning with cumulative products, edge-case handling for zeros and negative numbers, and time/space complexity optimization for in-place or constant-extra-space algorithms.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
• Describe mentorship, conflict, and project impactMedium

  This question evaluates leadership and interpersonal competencies—mentorship, conflict resolution, communication, ownership, and impact articulation—along with judgment about technical and product trade-offs, and it is categorized under Behavioral & Leadership for software engineering roles.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipOnsite
• Design a 2048 GameMedium

  This question evaluates object-oriented design, state management, deterministic randomness handling, and algorithmic reasoning for implementing game rules on a configurable N x N grid.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOnsite
• Design a Collaborative Todo ListMedium

  This question evaluates system-design skills for building real-time collaborative applications, covering data modeling, read/write paths, real-time synchronization, concurrent edits and reordering semantics, permission models, and consistency trade-offs within the System Design domain.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSystem DesignOnsite
• Design a Layered ASCII Canvas Command ProcessorMedium

  Design a clean, object-oriented command processor for a fixed 10x6 ASCII canvas that supports drawing, layering, and rendering overlapping filled rectangles.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOnsite
• Design a Real-Time Like Counter for Collaborative TasksMedium

  This problem tests the ability to design a distributed, high-concurrency counter system that maintains strict consistency while ensuring low-latency updates for collaborative task management.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSystem DesignTechnical Screen
• Design a Testable 2048 Game EngineMedium

  This problem tests object-oriented design principles, state management, and the ability to decouple business logic from external dependencies like random number generation to ensure testability.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
• Design a Twitter-like microblogging serviceMedium

  This question evaluates system design competencies including scalable architecture, data and API modeling, feed generation trade-offs, storage and caching strategies, consistency expectations, and operational concerns such as rate limiting, abuse mitigation, and observability.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSystem DesignTechnical Screen
• Design an Extensible Animal-Chess Game EngineMedium

  This question tests your ability to design a decoupled, extensible object-oriented system that separates game state, rule validation, and game flow logic.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
• Discuss projects, mentorship, and conflict resolutionMedium

  This question evaluates leadership, project ownership, mentorship, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution competencies through concrete examples of past work and team interactions.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen
• Explain code complexity and design two gamesMedium

  This multi-part question evaluates code comprehension and algorithmic complexity analysis alongside object-oriented design competencies for interactive applications, covering skills in analyzing time and space complexity, class modeling, API design, and state management.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
• Find frequent IPs from a huge fileMedium

  This question evaluates a candidate's competency in large-scale data processing and algorithm design, focusing on memory- and disk-constrained frequency estimation, streaming and approximation concepts.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOnsite
• Find the K Closest Points to the OriginMedium

  This problem tests proficiency with heap-based priority queues and custom sorting logic for spatial coordinates.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
• Implement an ASCII Art PrinterMedium

  This question evaluates the ability to implement text rendering and string/array manipulation concepts, including glyph concatenation with inter-character spacing, newline-preserved blocks, blank glyph rendering for spaces, and handling of unsupported characters.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
• Implement core puzzle/array/grid routinesMedium

  This question set evaluates algorithmic problem-solving competencies including backtracking and constraint satisfaction for jigsaw assembly, simulation and state manipulation for ASCII canvas and 2048 move logic, and linear-time in-place array transformation for the product-of-array problem.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
• Model a Turn-Based Cats and Rabbits Board GameMedium

  Design the object model, game state invariants, and move-validation engine for an asymmetric turn-based grid game played on a 7x7 board.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOnsite
• Model and Solve a Rectangular Jigsaw PuzzleMedium

  This problem tests object-oriented modeling skills and the ability to implement a backtracking algorithm with state pruning for a combinatorial search task.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen
• Navigate Challenges, Conflict, and Mentorship on a Major ProjectMedium

  This question assesses a candidate's ability to communicate complex interpersonal dynamics and technical problem-solving within a unified narrative structure.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipTechnical Screen
• Object-Oriented Design of a Two-Player Chess Game and Its Move RulesMedium

  A low-level design exercise asking for the classes, responsibilities and core code of a two-player chess program. It tests object modeling of pieces, board and game state, move validation including check and special moves, checkmate and stalemate detection, and keeping the design open to undo, network play or a computer opponent.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOther
• Partnering With Other Teams to Deliver Work That Spans Team BoundariesMedium

  A behavioral interview question about how you work with teams outside your own, such as other engineering groups, product and design, when your work depends on or affects theirs. It tests aligning goals and interfaces, managing dependencies, resolving disagreements directly, and communicating clearly across team boundaries.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipOther
• Pick the K Values Nearest a Target in a Sorted Integer ArrayMedium

  A coding exercise on a sorted integer array: return the k elements nearest a target value in ascending order, where equal distances favor the smaller value. It tests exploiting sorted order, handling targets outside the array's range, and treating duplicate values correctly.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOther
• Return the K Closest Points with Deterministic TiesMedium

  This problem tests the ability to efficiently find the nearest neighbors to a target coordinate while maintaining a deterministic ordering for ties, ensuring reproducible results.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
• Solve a Jigsaw PuzzleMedium

  This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving, constraint satisfaction, search and pruning strategies, and handling combinatorial state such as piece rotation and placement.

  AsanaSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen