Data Scientist I applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY)
Interview
Sailed through the initial phone interview (a series of technical stats questions) and then moved to a virtual onsite. This was 5 back to back 45min interviews with other employees, and no break in between sessions. With one exception, everyone seemed rushed, unhappy, and totally uninterested in their work. One interviewer was nearly impossible to communicate with bc of echoing sounds on mic and poor English language skills. It was live coding and or doing math in a Google doc for 90% of the time on complex problems that interviewers seemed to expect a quick simple answer for, rather than a discussion of trade-offs under different scenarios. Responses to my follow up questions were generally misleading or unhelpful. The most useless "brain teaser" task was to derive the CDF of an exotic distribution I had not worked with before but could simply be looked up in 2s on Wikipedia. This came after three other questions I had already solved. I'm not sure what they're selecting on here but it was a genuinely bad experience and the interview day provided a strong signal that it would not be a good fit for me. Not surprised about the outcome, but it was a real waste of my time and the recruiter provided zero feedback about the rejection because of "NDA policy".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write code to generate iid draws from distribution X when we only have access to a random number generator
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Started with a questionnaire for placement and a coding interview in a language of your choosing. Questions were straightforward programming challenges. Next came a discussion with the project manager that is more informal and used to gauge how well your interests and skills match.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you find the top 5 highest-selling items from a list of order histories?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2020
Interview
I applied through a referral. The information that they gave me to prepare for the interview did not really match up with what I was asked in the interview. The interviewer was also several minutes late to our interview and it was a Google Hangouts.