Product Manager Jobs at Asana

Asana PM interview guide

Asana runs a hands-on, simulation-style PM interview that mirrors the actual work, weighted heavily toward product sense/design, execution and metrics, and cross-functional collaboration. A distinctive feature is the take-home assignment plus a presentation round where you walk a panel of cross-functional stakeholders (PMs, engineers, designers) through a past project; engineers are treated as full partners in product discovery, so expect a technical chat with an engineering manager. Glassdoor reports an average difficulty of about 3.1 out of 5 and roughly 19 days to hire. Question themes cluster around: designing or reimagining products (including Asana-specific and quirky physical-product prompts), defining success metrics for new features, diagnosing metric drops, and behavioral questions on conflict, prioritization, and stakeholder pushback. Sourced questions below are drawn from Exponent, Prepfully, ProductGym, Dataford, and aggregated candidate reports.

The interview process

1. Recruiter screen. A brief call to gauge interest, walk through your background, and explain the process. The take-home assignment is typically handed off during or right after this call.
2. Take-home assignment. A product exercise that takes a few hours; you propose a solution and reasoning that you will later discuss with the product team.
3. Introductory call with a product team member. You walk through your take-home solution, thought process, and trade-offs and get feedback. A chance to show product judgment and clear communication.
4. Onsite presentation (about 45 minutes). The most important round: present a past project closely related to the role to a panel of cross-functional stakeholders, covering trade-offs, decisions, and what you would do differently.
5. Technical round with an engineering manager (about 30 minutes). Targeted questions across product, design, and analytics plus how you navigate technical challenges and trade-offs with engineering.
6. Behavioral round with the hiring manager (about 30 minutes). Deeper behavioral questions on teamwork, conflict resolution, leadership style, and collaboration.
7. Offer. Overall timeline is roughly one to four weeks; Glassdoor reports an average of about 19 days to hire.

Likely PM interview questions

1. Design a video streaming app for senior citizens.Product sense
2. Design Uber for laundry. How would you design an Uber for laundry?Product sense
3. Design ClassPass for kids.Product sense