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Notion

Builds a connected workspace for notes, documents, wikis, projects and AI assisted search used by individuals and teams.

Not known6 stage process documentedFounded 2013
Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Headcount

250 to 1,000

250 to 999 people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply

No careers page on file yet. Try their LinkedIn or the job boards below.

Website

Ask for a referral to Notion

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
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Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Open internships

How they hire

Notion has not published a stage-by-stage engineering loop in the pages reviewed; the stages above come from candidate reports and may vary by team and level. Notion says it shares a role-specific interview guide with candidates.

  1. 1

    Recruiter screen

    Unverified +1
    Recruiter screen30 minutesRemote

    A short call about your background and why Notion, sometimes with a product question about the app itself.

  2. 2

    Take-home project (some roles)

    Unverified
    Take-home assignment

    Some candidates report a multi-day coding assignment, often a simplified block-based editor in React and TypeScript, which is later extended in a pairing session.

    ReactTypeScriptState management
  3. 3

    Technical phone screen

    Unverified +1
    Live coding1 hoursRemote

    A live coding session with a Notion engineer.

  4. 4

    Onsite loop

    Unverified +1
    Panel interview

    Several one-hour interviews covering practical coding and debugging, system design for real-time collaborative editing, and a behavioural conversation with the hiring manager.

    Practical codingSystem designBehavioural
  5. 5

    Leadership or founder conversation

    Unverified
    Senior leadership

    A final conversation focused on values and culture with a member of Notion’s leadership.

  6. 6

    Reference checks

    Official
    Final HR round

    Notion says it treats reference checks as a real signal rather than a formality, and resolves open questions before making an offer.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Two-way conversation

    Official

    Notion describes its interviews as conversations rather than interrogations and publishes interview guides per role so there are no surprises.

  • Collaborative editor design

    Unverified

    Design questions reportedly centre on real-time collaboration, such as how a shared document editor stays consistent.

  • Product sense

    Unverified

    Candidates report being asked how they use Notion and what they would improve.

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What it pays

Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.

Add to the Notion page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Notion page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Ask your recruiter for Notion’s interview guide for your role, since the company says it writes one for every role. Use the product seriously before interviewing, as product questions reportedly come up early.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Notion? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Notion

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Notion page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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