Notion Labs Software Engineer interview experience

I didn’t see much “LeetCode-style” focus; instead, I got questions and coding tasks that leaned more toward working with a real codebase—especially around React proficiency and how I’d reason about abstractions and engineering tradeoffs.

After the initial screens, the technical portions stayed grounded in implementation. Even when the questions pulled in core data structure or algorithms concepts, they were framed to match the kind of thinking you’d use while building features rather than solving trick problems. I also remember a coding interview that involved writing SQL against data