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jacklionheart

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    Comment #12980789

    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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    Comment #11379256

    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 t…

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    Comment #11379179

    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…

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    Comment #11378876

    > 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…

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    Comment #11378870

    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…

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    Comment #11378859

    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 sha…

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    Comment #11378842

    > 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…

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    Comment #11378828

    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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    Comment #11378823

    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 c…

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    Comment #8610411

    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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    Comment #7267706

    Yes, but they've continued to invest in Instagram as a product. Will they do that here as well?

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    Comment #7267701

    This doesn't make much sense to me since most of the transaction was in cash.

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    Comment #7267694

    I have trouble imagining that infrastructure supporting 400M users "runs itself".