> 彼がうちの会社に来た理由を聞いたとして俺はどうする  
>  返ってくるであろう答えも想像はつく

The character saw a friend at his company and now he's wondering why did he
join? Did he do it for him?

I do know するとして is used for suppositions, but I don't understand why he used
the past here.
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Past + として used in a sentence instead present
Seems like the friend joined the company because of the speaker and this
reason, if known, would be problematic to him.

It's similar to とすると and としたら. Literally としても without the も particle. Keep in
mind that the て form gives the idea that the clause that follows is somehow a
consequence of the first one, but not so strongly as としたら does. I translated
it as "if" regardless, but you get the idea.

[CLAUSE NON-PAST] + とする -> To assume [CLAUSE NON-PAST] (meaning we don't know
whether [CLAUSE NON-PAST] is true, but we regard it as true).

[CLAUSE PAST] + とする -> To make a hypothetical assumption about [CLAUSE PAST]
(meaning we do know that [CLAUSE PAST] didn't happen, but we presume it did)

I found this particularly confusing because [CLAUSE NON-PAST / PAST] とする is
often translated as "If I were to [CLAUSE].." and many [CASE]とする can be
written in both past and non-past.

> 彼がうちの会社に来た理由を聞いたとして俺はどうする  
>  If I assume someone **had heard** the reason he joined our company, what
> should I do? / Assuming I **were to ask** him the reason...
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