New-grad engineer building core product features at Notion

Join Notion as a new-grad engineer working across teams on features millions of people use — from onboarding activation flows to search and performance polish. This role expects ownership from day one: planning, shaping, and shipping product features end to end alongside design, product, and data partners.

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What this interview tests

Ownership and initiative on ambiguous problems
Full-stack reasoning (React/TypeScript frontend + backend/data model)
Prior internship project depth
Pragmatic use of AI-assisted development tools
Collaboration and asking for help appropriately

Common question themes

Walk through a project you owned end-to-end, including a stuck moment

How would you improve an onboarding activation flow or search feature end-to-end

Describe your internship project and what you'd change in hindsight

How do you decide when to use an AI coding tool versus write it yourself

Tell me about a time you had to learn an unfamiliar part of a codebase or system

How candidates describe it

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