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What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The posting asks for 10+ years of experience.

Main responsibilities

  • Build technical foundations that help the broader team and coding agents experiment, build and ship more.
  • Drive technical and product vision as an engineering leader within the org, building alignment with other eng teams and cross functionally, bringing clarity …
  • Deliver experiments end-to-end, from ideation to analysis, that balance the dimensions of product and the business appropriately.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

  • Technical skill Core
    In the posting: “Build technical foundations that help the broader team and coding agents experiment, build and ship more.” · “Drive technical and product vision as an engineering leader within the org, building alignment with other eng teams and cross functionally, bringing clarity …” · “Data and experimentation as a practice: You have Growth Engineering experience at another company, and you've built experimentation into how a team works: de…”
    Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
  • Teamwork and collaboration Core
    In the posting: “Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s.” · “A history of strong cross-functional collaboration with marketing, sales, and/or other non-technical teams” · “You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to…”
    Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
  • Customer focus Core
    In the posting: “Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life.” · “From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more…” · “Get to know the Notion customer to understand key points in the customer journey and uncover insights that will drive activation and engagement”
    Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
  • Data and analysis Core
    In the posting: “Notion's Growth Engineers make the everyone part of that happen with a combination of creativity and data to unlock business growth.” · “We are owners of the ins and outs of our business, using a blend of data, qualitative research, and product intuition to drive business growth.” · “Deliver experiments end-to-end, from ideation to analysis, that balance the dimensions of product and the business appropriately.”
    Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
  • Attention to detail and quality Core
    In the posting: “Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era.” · “Data and experimentation as a practice: You have Growth Engineering experience at another company, and you've built experimentation into how a team works: de…”
    Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
  • Stakeholder management Core
    In the posting: “Drive technical and product vision as an engineering leader within the org, building alignment with other eng teams and cross functionally, bringing clarity …” · “You dig into growth data, customer research, and the codebase to find the highest-leverage opportunities, then make the case for them and drive alignment on …”
    Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
  • Problem solving Supporting
    In the posting: “Finding the problems worth solving: You don't wait to be handed a roadmap.”
    Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
  • Ownership and accountability Supporting
    In the posting: “Deliver experiments end-to-end, from ideation to analysis, that balance the dimensions of product and the business appropriately.”
    Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
  • Leadership and mentoring Supporting
    In the posting: “Raising the bar for others: You mentor engineers of all tenures, guide them on and technical designs, and share your expertise so it scales past you.”
    Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
  • Planning and organisation Supporting
    In the posting: “Pragmatism and impact-orientation: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly.”
    Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
  • Adaptability and learning Supporting
    In the posting: “You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to…”
    Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.

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Practice questions

  1. Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
  2. If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
  3. Built from this posting (8):
  4. Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
  5. Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
  6. Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
  7. Tell me about a time you used data or numbers to make a decision. From this posting
  8. How have you used sales in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
  9. Tell me about a problem you solved using marketing. From this posting
  10. Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
  11. Tell me about a difficult problem you solved at work. How did you find the cause? From this posting
  12. This posting reads as Software engineering: its questions come first.
  13. Tell me about the hardest bug you have tracked down. How did you find the cause? Software engineering
  14. Describe a technical design decision you made and the trade-off behind it. Software engineering
  15. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate in a code review. Software engineering
  16. Production is down and you are the first engineer to notice. What do you do in the first 30 minutes? Software engineering
  17. How do you decide what to test before you ship a change? Software engineering
  18. Walk me through a feature you built from start to finish. What tools and languages did you use? Software engineering
  19. Tell me about a time you helped a less experienced engineer get unstuck. Software engineering
  20. Your estimate for a feature turns out to be badly wrong halfway through. What do you do? Software engineering
  21. Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
  22. Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
  23. Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
  24. Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
  25. Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
  26. Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
  27. Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
  28. Describe a process you improved.
  29. Do you have any questions for us?
  30. Why do you want to work here?
  31. Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
  32. Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
  33. Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
  34. What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
  35. What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
  36. You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
  37. Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
  38. A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
  39. How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
  40. Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
  41. You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
  42. Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
  43. How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
  44. Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
  45. How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
  46. Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
  47. A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
  48. How do you keep your pipeline organised?
  49. Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
  50. You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
  51. Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.