Is Notion a good company to work for in 2026? A verified read

At 22:58 UTC on October 27, 2026, Notion's public job board listed 139 open postings (Notion job board). In announcing its board in June 2026, CEO Ivan Zhao wrote that "we have been profitable from early in our history"; the post gives no profit figure (Notion). In January 2026, Notion said investors bought shares from current and former employees at an $11 billion valuation, and that it waived the one-year vesting cliff on options for current employees (Notion). Notion calls itself "an in-person company", and its careers page says staff come together on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (Notion careers).

At 22:58 UTC on October 27, 2026, Notion's public job board listed 139 open postings, 59 of them in San Francisco, 21 in Dublin, 20 in Tokyo and 16 in New York (Notion job board). By department, the largest groups were Sales (48 postings), People (17), Outcomes Architect (15) and Engineering (14) (Notion job board). On October 26, 2026, Notion's X account posted "We’re [still] hiring" with open roles grouped by team, including Early Career, Engineering, Security, Sales and a group it calls Outcomes Architects (X). Every posting carries the line "If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply" (Notion job board).

Notion said on January 26, 2026 that investors bought shares from current and former employees in a private tender offer of about $270 million at an $11 billion valuation, with GIC joining Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, and that it waived the one-year vesting cliff on options for current employees (Notion). Its most recent Form D, filed in October 2021, reports a $275 million equity offering (SEC EDGAR).

As of October 27, 2026, Ivan Zhao is Notion's co-founder and CEO (Notion careers). Notion's co-founders also include Akshay Kothari (Notion) and Simon Last (Notion). On September 24, 2026, Notion named Max Schoening its CTO (Notion). As of January 2026, Rama Katkar was its chief financial officer (Notion), and as of March 2026, Erica Anderson was its chief revenue officer (Notion; Slack). On June 8, 2026, Notion announced that Jonathan Chadwick, Pat Grady, Gretchen Howard, Christopher Payne and Patrick Hsu would join its first board of directors (Notion).

As of October 27, 2026, EDGAR's public filings show no Form D or registration statement from Notion Labs, Inc. after October 13, 2021; a confidential draft registration would not appear there (SEC EDGAR). CNBC reported on May 19, 2026 that Notion "hasn't raised outside capital since October 2021 when it raised $275 million in a series C with Sequoia Capital and Coatue" (CNBC).

In announcing its board on June 8, 2026, CEO Ivan Zhao wrote that "we have been profitable from early in our history"; the post gives no profit figure (Notion). On revenue mix, Notion said more than half of its annual recurring revenue at the end of 2025 came from AI-enabled customers, a share that "more than doubled over the last year" (Notion).

California's WARN reports from July 1, 2021 through the newest notice, dated October 26, 2026, list no notice from Notion. California's law covers employers with 75 or more employees and is triggered by a layoff of 50 or more employees within 30 days, a plant closure, or a relocation of at least 100 miles, so a smaller layoff would not appear (California EDD; WARN page). The record covers California only.

Notion publishes its own interview guides. Its guide for business roles, read on October 28, 2026, lists a recruiter interview and a hiring manager interview of 30 to 45 minutes each, virtual onsite interviews, a final interview with someone on its executive team, and reference checks; it says every offer depends on a background check, and that most of its interviews follow that general process (Notion interview guide). For software engineers, its guide lists an initial interview with a member of its Talent team, a live-coding technical assessment with a Notion engineer, two 60-minute coding interviews, a 60-minute software or system design interview, a 60-minute career history interview, a final interview with a member of the leadership team, and reference checks (Notion interview guide).

Notion calls itself "an in-person company", and its careers page says staff come together on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (Notion careers); 75 of the 139 postings on its board on October 27, 2026 call those days "Anchor Days", and the other 64 do not use the term (Notion job board).

On October 19, 2026, Notion introduced a new credit system, under which Business and Enterprise seats include monthly Standard credits and Select credits (Notion), and said its upgraded model router, Auto, "delivered similar results to Opus 5.5 and Astra at about 90% lower average cost" across 20+ common use cases (Notion). It said its agents can connect to "hundreds of different tools via MCPs and connectors, up from a few dozen earlier this summer" (Notion). In May 2026 it introduced a Developer Platform (Notion) and said teams had already built over 1 million Custom Agents (Notion). In July 2026 it announced it had acquired ZeroEntropy (Notion), whose reranker it said made its unified search up to 30% faster (Notion). Earlier, in November 2023, Notion launched Q&A, an AI feature that answers questions across a workspace, as a beta (Notion).