Company profile
Notion
Notion is the all-in-one workspace combining docs, wikis, databases, projects, and the Notion AI assistant. Interviews are small-team and product-driven, with an emphasis on craft and judgment; engineering loops often probe deeply on the block-based data model and the realtime collaboration architecture.
The Notion interview process
Notion runs a small-team, product-driven loop with an emphasis on craft and judgment. Engineering rounds often probe the block-based data model and the realtime collaboration architecture, and the bar for thoughtful product reasoning is high relative to the company's size.
- 1
Recruiter and manager
Background and product motivation.
- 2
Coding
Practical implementation with clean structure.
- 3
System design
Block-based data model and realtime collaboration.
- 4
Product and craft
Judgment about user-facing tradeoffs.
What Notion is looking for
What they value
- Reasoning about flexible, block-style data models
- Product judgment on real tradeoffs
- Clean, considered implementation
Culture signals in the loop
- Craft and taste in a small, dense team
- Caring about user-facing simplicity
- Curiosity about the data model behind the product
Questions and process by role
Notion hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
ai - AI infrastructure engineer
AI infrastructure engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
ai - AI red team engineer
AI red team engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
ai - AI research engineer
AI research engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
research - MLOps engineer
MLOps engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
ai - Frontend engineer
Frontend engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
engineering - Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Notion.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Notion's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Notion offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Notion holds a 4.3 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.3