Notion interview questions

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• Analyze Document Collaboration CSVsMedium

  This problem tests your ability to clean, join, and analyze messy user-activity data using pandas or SQL, focusing on window functions and handling missing values.

  NotionData ScientistData Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screen
• Analyze document collaboration from CSV logsEasy

  This question evaluates data manipulation and analytical competencies—particularly deduplication, joins, aggregation, co-occurrence counting, and metric definition—applied to CSV access logs and user metadata.

  NotionData ScientistData Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screen
• Analyze document collaboration patternsMedium

  This question evaluates a candidate's competency in data manipulation and analytics—specifically joins, deduplication of user-document pairs, aggregation, and computation of user- and country-level collaboration metrics using SQL or Python.

  NotionData ScientistData Manipulation (SQL/Python)Technical Screen
• Design a Shared Calendar ServiceMedium

  This problem tests the ability to design a scalable shared calendar system with support for recurring events, granular permission models, and notification scheduling.

  NotionSoftware EngineerSystem DesignOnsite
• Design a Todo List Object ModelMedium

  Tests object-oriented design, domain modeling, and API design skills by implementing an extensible, hierarchical Todo list model with task dependency management and filtering.

  NotionSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsOnsite
• Design a text editor with undo/redoMedium

  This question evaluates understanding of stateful data structures, operation/command semantics for reversible actions, undo/redo stack management, interface design, complexity analysis, and test coverage for mutable editors.

  NotionSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen
• Explain impact and partnershipMedium

  This question evaluates a Data Engineer's behavioral and leadership competencies, including ownership, cross-functional collaboration with data scientists and partners, stakeholder communication, problem framing, impact measurement, and responsiveness to managerial feedback, and is categorized under Behavioral & Leadership.

  NotionData EngineerBehavioral & LeadershipOnsite
• Find Top Errors in Time WindowMedium

  This problem tests your ability to process streaming log data within a sliding time window, aggregate frequencies using hash maps, and implement custom sorting logic.

  NotionSoftware EngineerCoding & AlgorithmsOnsite
• Implement Recursive React JSON Viewer with CollapseMedium

  Implement Recursive React JSON Viewer with Collapse evaluates requirements, assumptions, structured reasoning, trade-offs, and verification in a realistic interview setting. A strong answer states assumptions, handles edge cases, explains trade-offs, and shows how to validate the result clearly.

  NotionSoftware EngineerSoftware Engineering FundamentalsTechnical Screen