I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. The interview took 45 minutes, through google hangout. Questions are mainly about things on my resume, my previous work experience and research in school.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain confidence intervals to people with no statistics background.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
Interview
First let me intorduce myself and then my dissertation. Afterwards, he asked a question about questionnaire design, measurement error and estimate of the proportion of truly interested customers and falsely reporting rate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Essentially is about how measurement error and reliability affect your regression estimate (or just the estimate of the probability in a binomial distribution).
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Palo Alto, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
The technical interview was unexpected. The interviewer did not ask a single question about statistics or programming. Rather I was asked a domain-specific question about Google ads, which continued for the rest of the interview. I was not expecting another data scientist interviewing me about a hypothetical feature. I am also not sure why the interviewer decided not to pursue further, even though I did well in brainstorming ideas on how to test a hypothetical feature in Google ads.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question about Google ads: how would you test whether a new hypothetical feature is better than the current feature? What will be your metric? Apart from CTR, what other metrics can you think of?