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Notion interview preparation

Notion

www.notion.com

Walk into Notion prepared.
Know what it looks for.

All-in-one workspace platform combining notes, docs, wikis, and project management powered by AI. Notion interviews emphasize product craft, design sensibility, and the ability to build tools that empower teams to organize their work.

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What we know about Notion

Your preparation, in four steps

Take them in order, or start where you need help most.

  1. Step 1Learn how Notion hiresHear its values, its interview process and the questions it asks.Listen
  2. Step 2Build your storiesTurn your experience into STAR answers shaped around Notion.Open Story Bank
  3. Step 3Tailor your resumeWrite a resume for your target role at Notion, from your own experience.Open Resume Studio
  4. Step 4Practice out loudRun a mock interview with an AI interviewer. Get a written report on what to fix.Start practicing

What Notion's rounds look like

System design at Notion

Length
60 minutes
Tracks
Software Design, System Design

Known to ask

  • Design a job scheduler
  • Design Google Docs
  • Design Notion's block storage layer at scale
  • Design a permission system for a workspace with inherited and overridden access controls
  • Design the sync protocol between mobile and cloud for offline-first document editing
  • Design the backend for a block-based editor supporting 100 concurrent editors per document
and 4 more

From Notion's hiring pages and candidate reports, read 2026-10-27.