Notion Labs Software Engineer interview experience

Eventually I was told they’d moved forward with someone else, but the job posting stayed open, which made the whole thing feel inconsistent and unnecessarily drawn out.

In another part of this experience, I got through a basic interview sequence and even completed the coding work, only to receive an email shortly after the fact saying the role had closed. The message emphasized keeping in touch, but it still felt like I’d invested real time into a process that had already effectively ended.

Across both moments, the surprise wasn’t technical—it was the mismatch between what the process