2026 Notion Software Engineer New Grad Take-Home / Interviews: 3 Experiences

The 2026 new grad reports are light on question detail. The one that reached a virtual onsite on the AI track says the coding was about building something, not algorithms, and that the debugging round included reviewing a pull request.

Coverage: Notion Software Engineer New Grad, Software Engineer – Early Career, and the Software Engineer New Grad (AI) track. Recruiter screens, a take-home, and virtual onsites. One report is from San Francisco; the other two give no location. Reports from March to September 2026.

Intern reports are in our Notion intern roundup, experienced hires are in our experienced Notion roundup, and Notion reports that don't give a hiring level have their own roundup.

The two new grad tracks are kept apart below:

• Software Engineer, New Grad and Early Career: 2 reports (01–02), September and March 2026.
• Software Engineer, New Grad (AI): 1 report (03), May 2026.

Software Engineer, New Grad and Early Career

What came up

Both reports start with a recruiter screen. Only one candidate went further, to a take-home and then a virtual onsite.

A candidate can appear in more than one row.

Questions we found

Behavioral (BQ)

2 detailed candidate timelines, loops, and screens

01: Out at the virtual onsite

Report date: Sep 29, 2026 · Role: Software Engineer New Grad · Location: San Francisco · Result: No offer

The candidate applied through a recruiter, and the whole process took three weeks.

Process

1. Recruiter call.
2. Take-home assignment.
3. Virtual onsite. This is where the candidate's process ended.

According to the candidate, the new grad process continues with two behavioral interviews after the onsite. They didn't reach those.

02: A recruiter screen and then nothing

Report date: Mar 12, 2026 · Role: Software Engineer – Early Career · Result: No offer

Recruiter screen

1. Background questions: location, preferences, timeline, and why Notion.
2. What do you want from your next role? (practice)

The recruiter said to expect an answer the same day. The candidate never heard back.

Software Engineer, New Grad (AI)

One report. It describes a virtual onsite with a building-style coding round and a debugging round that also asked for a code review. No question was named, so there's no question table for this track.

1 detailed candidate timeline

03: Building, debugging, and reviewing a pull request

Report date: May 11, 2026 · Role: Software Engineer New Grad (AI) · Result: Not stated

Virtual onsite

1. Coding: an implementation task, not an algorithm puzzle. The candidate misread what the task was for at first and struggled with one function. The examples and test cases they were given were thin.
2. Debugging, as expected, plus a part where the candidate reviewed someone else's pull request. They found the review part hard.

The candidate called the onsite fair but challenging.

Keep practicing

• The Notion behavioral question bank has the next-role prompt linked above (sign-in needed).
• The Notion project coding bank holds Notion's build-and-debug projects (sign-in needed).
• Everything Notion in one place: the Notion interview page and Notion hiring insights.
• More firsthand reports: the Experience feed.

Sources: Anywhere useful interview info can be found.