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 the phone interivew. I do think your interview was an outlier in that regard, but that doesn't excuse it.
Re: the questions themselves, although I don't agree with your characterization of what's going on or what we're looking for, I definitely think there's a lot of room to improve on our data-science screening. I'll send you an email with more re: what specifically came up in your interview that made us reject.
Again, thanks for taking the time to share this really explicit feedback.
(For the record, I don't really know what you're referring to re: Asana and Agile.)
Hopefully this thread's not too stale yet to escape notice.
I just wanted to add that the user above, Jack, absolutely made good on what he said.
He sent me some very well-written, extremely professional, and constructive feedback about my interview process. I am able to see a lot of things I can improve and it will help me for future interviews. I think it also highlights some things about the process that Asana can improve, and by all evidence of Jack's sincerity in the feedback, I believe Asana is very interested in ways of improving.
Don't let anyone say that all I do on Hacker News is grumble about open-plan offices... in this case I am expressing my sincere gratitude and appreciation for Jack's feedback.
If I had received this kind of response in a timely manner when Asana decided not to continue the interview process with me, I would have walked away with a significant positive feeling about interviewing with them.
Re: the questions themselves, although I don't agree with your characterization of what's going on or what we're looking for, I definitely think there's a lot of room to improve on our data-science screening. I'll send you an email with more re: what specifically came up in your interview that made us reject.
Again, thanks for taking the time to share this really explicit feedback.
(For the record, I don't really know what you're referring to re: Asana and Agile.)