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Scheduling Marketing (must) Sales

What this posting asks for

Level: Lead / staff — The title says "Staff".

Main responsibilities

  • Design and build AI-augmented workflows and systems that help coding agents understand the codebase, follow engineering practices, and enable Asana engineers…
  • Design and scale autonomous cloud agents that take on complex, multi-step engineering tasks to reduce toil and enable engineers to focus on higher-leverage w…
  • Build and refine IDE, editor, and CLI integrations that make AI-assisted development feel intuitive in engineers' daily work.
  • Create reusable agent skills, tools, context, and integrations that teams across Asana can build on rather than reinvent.
  • Improve AI-assisted code review workflows so engineers get faster, higher-quality feedback before and during review.
  • Drive adoption of AI developer tools across engineering through usability improvements, measurement, documentation, and enablement.
  • Partner cross-functionally with teams across the engineering organization to understand engineering needs, identify workflow friction, and scale high-impact …

Competencies an interviewer will look for

  • Technical skill Core
    In the posting: “We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to integrate and improve our AI developer experience so that engineers at Asana can use AI to increase their velo…” · “As part of the AI Developer Productivity team, you’ll set technical direction and build the next generation of AI-powered developer tools across editors, IDE…” · “Design and build AI-augmented workflows and systems that help coding agents understand the codebase, follow engineering practices, and enable Asana engineers…”
    Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
  • Teamwork and collaboration Core
    In the posting: “Partner cross-functionally with teams across the engineering organization to understand engineering needs, identify workflow friction, and scale high-impact …” · “Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or dec…” · “Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration.”
    Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
  • Attention to detail and quality Core
    In the posting: “The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.” · “Improve AI-assisted code review workflows so engineers get faster, higher-quality feedback before and during review.” · “Experience building evaluation and quality frameworks for AI-generated outputs.”
    Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
  • Planning and organisation Core
    In the posting: “This role is based in our New York City office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.” · “Partner cross-functionally with teams across the engineering organization to understand engineering needs, identify workflow friction, and scale high-impact …”
    Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
  • Adaptability and learning Core
    In the posting: “Strong technical judgment and systems design skills, with the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.” · “Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or dec…”
    Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
  • Communication Supporting
    In the posting: “Drive adoption of AI developer tools across engineering through usability improvements, measurement, documentation, and enablement.”
    Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
  • Ownership and accountability Supporting
    In the posting: “Design and scale autonomous cloud agents that take on complex, multi-step engineering tasks to reduce toil and enable engineers to focus on higher-leverage w…”
    Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
  • Leadership and mentoring Supporting
    In the posting: “Career coaching & support”
    Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.

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Practice questions

  1. Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
  2. If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
  3. Built from this posting (8):
  4. Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
  5. Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
  6. Tell me about a time you caught an error before it reached a customer or a report. From this posting
  7. You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
  8. How have you used marketing in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
  9. Tell me about a problem you solved using scheduling. From this posting
  10. Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
  11. Tell me about a time you had to explain something complex to someone outside your field. From this posting
  12. This posting reads as Software engineering: its questions come first.
  13. Tell me about the hardest bug you have tracked down. How did you find the cause? Software engineering
  14. Describe a technical design decision you made and the trade-off behind it. Software engineering
  15. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate in a code review. Software engineering
  16. Production is down and you are the first engineer to notice. What do you do in the first 30 minutes? Software engineering
  17. How do you decide what to test before you ship a change? Software engineering
  18. Walk me through a feature you built from start to finish. What tools and languages did you use? Software engineering
  19. Tell me about a time you helped a less experienced engineer get unstuck. Software engineering
  20. Your estimate for a feature turns out to be badly wrong halfway through. What do you do? Software engineering
  21. Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
  22. Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
  23. Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
  24. Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
  25. Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
  26. Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
  27. Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
  28. Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
  29. Describe a process you improved.
  30. Do you have any questions for us?
  31. Why do you want to work here?
  32. Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
  33. Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
  34. Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
  35. What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
  36. What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
  37. You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
  38. Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
  39. A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
  40. How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
  41. Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
  42. You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
  43. Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
  44. How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
  45. How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
  46. Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
  47. A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
  48. How do you keep your pipeline organised?
  49. Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
  50. You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
  51. Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.