jacklionheart

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by jacklionheart 10y ago
You will be able to toggle projects between Board and List view fairly soon (Note that the holiday season will push back the release cycle in general for a bit.)
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Asana acquires Pied Piper(medium.com)
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
Yep, I'm that Jack. I remember you now. Thanks for the clear picture of what it's like to be on the candidate side. Efficiency is clearly a goal, and we clearly failed here given that it took us a week to get back to you after t
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
JFYI, that's not accurate. We've been sending this to candidates for months; the genuine impetus was to try to put all candidates on a more level and accurate playing field so that we can make better hires. That's not to say
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
> I appreciate the sentiment behind documents like this, but, Asana, you can do better. When you do, you'll find it gets easier to hire people, and, perhaps counterintuitively, the quality of your hires will go up. I agree! (I don&#
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
Hi there! That sounds bad. Could you let me know what's giving you the impression that that's Asana's goal? We really try to explicitly avoid that kind of interview evaluation, and put strong emphasis on Communication, User e
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
Hi there -- I'm really sorry that you had such a negative experience. It sounds like we didn't honor how much time you'd put into the challenge, and that sucks. I'd be happy to share more feedback with you if you're
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
> I find it funny that startups only implement these ridiculous hiring practices after they start to grow Hmm, I'm curious what you're assuming! At Asana, at least, our first hires went through many of the same questions that i
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! What did you learn from those that yo u didn't see in the Asana one? - Jack from asana
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by jacklionheart 10y ago
Hey -- I work at Asana. Great idea! Took a task to add more resources to learn from to the doc. > I feel very confident in doing day-to-day software development. I do not feel as confident speaking about abstract hypotheticals in front o
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Airbnb: To belong anywhere, you have to respect everywhere(medium.com)
2 points by jacklionheart 11y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Collaboration at Asana(eng.asana.com)
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by jacklionheart 12y ago
The IDE support for TypeScript is actually pretty great; building our own tooling support for LunaScript felt like something we didn't really want to have to do.
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by jacklionheart 13y ago
Yes, but they've continued to invest in Instagram as a product. Will they do that here as well?
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by jacklionheart 13y ago
This doesn't make much sense to me since most of the transaction was in cash.
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by jacklionheart 13y ago
I have trouble imagining that infrastructure supporting 400M users "runs itself".