When small team meets amazing business opportunity
When small team meets amazing business opportunity
- Awesome product and incredible community
- Business way beyond what you'd expect from a smaller startup
- People are frank, open, and easy to work with
- Challenging technical and product problems
- Team size is still catching up to the size of the business opportunity.
- Still figuring out how to balance product polish with bigger bets.
- Standard growth challenges, which include missing processes and code that needs better interface boundaries.
Keep hiring and investing in leaders to scale the company so you can parallelize and make progress on multiple fronts.
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Notion Interview Experiences
Engineering Manager
The overall interview process was very smooth. I got the opportunity to meet lots of people who I will be working with on the job. Most of the questions were related/specific to the job, not standard/random LeetCode problems.
SWE Intern
First, the tone throughout the interview felt condescending. Rather than a collaborative pair-programming environment, it often felt more like being lectured by a professor. This made it difficult to feel comfortable asking questions or thinking out
Software Engineer
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. Tech screen: a React challenge to build a menu component, frontend system design about building a calendar UI, a JS class for string manipulation, and a project retro behavioral screen to assess which team
Engineering Manager
United StatesNovember 1, 2021The overall interview process was very smooth. I got the opportunity to meet lots of people who I will be working with on the job. Most of the questions were related/specific to the job, not standard/random LeetCode problems.
SWE Intern
CanadaSeptember 1, 2025First, the tone throughout the interview felt condescending. Rather than a collaborative pair-programming environment, it often felt more like being lectured by a professor. This made it difficult to feel comfortable asking questions or thinking out
Software Engineer
December 17, 2025I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. Tech screen: a React challenge to build a menu component, frontend system design about building a calendar UI, a JS class for string manipulation, and a project retro behavioral screen to assess which team
