Data Scientist 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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tech-phone interview. applied online and waited 3 days to get the email from HR to set up a screen interview. Then tech-phone interview. The whole process is very quick and their HR is very nice
I applied online. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
1. Talk to recruiter. Mentioned to read Google unofficial blog. found it useless for the interview but is actually useful for my current job.
2. Then phone screen with a statistician using some shared google doc.
3. Got rejection after one week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a google app and you make a change. How do you test if a metric has increased or not?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Dec 2016
Interview
Submit resume online, answer a questionnaire with about 20 questions. Then a HR arranged a phone interview and attached a review guide. I followed the guide for reviewing. But during the interview, most of questions are from my keys words in my resume. So understand and prepare explaining everything in your resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Why use feature selection? If two predictors are highly correlated, what is the effect on the coefficients in the logistic regression? What are the confidence intervals of the coefficients?
2. K- mean and Gaussian mixture model: what is the difference between K-mean and EM?
3.How to decided k?
4.When using Gaussian mixture model, how do you know it is applicable? (Normal distribution)
4.If the labels are known in the clustering project, how to evaluate the performance of the model? In my project, I use adjusted rank index? But I forgot how it is defined.