We brought together a few women from our global engineering team to learn about their decision to join the company and what it’s like working at Notion.

Let us introduce you to them 👋

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Let’s get into some questions….

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What influenced you to join Notion?

Lauren, Platform Engineer

Lauren, Platform Engineer

A lot of reasons drove me to Notion, however the things that stood out to me the most are the:

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I started using Notion about two years ago and was immediately drawn to its combination of flexible features and aesthetic design. About a year later I saw that the company was hiring and decided to apply because I liked the product so much. Throughout the hiring process, I really liked all the people I talked to and that solidified my decision to join.

Alex, Infrastructure Engineer

Alex, Infrastructure Engineer

Mohini, Engineering Manager

Mohini, Engineering Manager

I was drawn by so many factors! Below are some of my top reasons:

I was a Notion user and liked the product, and I was particularly impressed by what the team was able to accomplish with so few people. I also liked how expansive Notion’s product is — it does so much and it can do so much more, and I was drawn by the potential and the amount of opportunities here.

Penny, Workspaces Engineer

Penny, Workspaces Engineer

Shir, Engineering Manager

Shir, Engineering Manager

One of my first exposures to technology was creating a website with Geocities in the early 2000s and my mind was blown. I thought it was so cool that you could build things so quickly. Fast forward two decades later after working as a software engineer across different AI spaces, I wanted to go back to that first love: being able to quickly create something out of nothing, which is exactly what Notion is all about.


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How would you describe Notion’s Engineering culture?

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Notion’s engineers are not unlike Notion’s users— constantly tinkering and and iterating on their work. While I’ve only been at Notion a short time (only 6 months!) it’s been an honor to watch as an engineering team we are constantly evolving, learning from our users, learning from our own mistakes, and learning from each other. It’s been really cool being on a team with so much humility and hunger for learning.

Shir, Engineering Manager

Shir, Engineering Manager

Lauren, Platform Engineer

Lauren, Platform Engineer

*We’re always striving for a good balance between shipping quickly, but also shipping high quality features. Success in this area involves thinking a good bit about your proposed changes and features with Product Requirement Documents and Technical Specs (in Notion, of course). Working at Notion has made me a more rigorous and thoughtful engineer and technical writer.

We’d also prefer to delay shipping something if we don’t think it meets the quality bar. Engineers have a great deal of ownership over evaluating trade-offs for their project with any stakeholders. It’s important to ask and re-visit, “What problem is this solving? Can I solve it in a more holistic way?”.

Notion engineering is also probably one of the most serious but silly places I’ve ever worked. People here are both kind and helpful, but also love a little silly chaos. During bug bash earlier this year, I was able to introduce a virtual air horn to hype up my team during demos. I think it went over well? Someone requested it again this fall.*

Notion’s Engineering culture is collaborative, kind, and direct. I’ve worked on a few big projects where I needed help from multiple teams, and everyone has been so sincere and generous with their time, no matter what team they are on. I’ve also learned to have kind and direct conversations at Notion — we’re not afraid to challenge each other in product and engineering conversations, but we do it kindly, and the ideas that come out on the other side are better for it.