I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Tokyo) in Dec 2021
Interview
Overall proces was ok. Did about 6 interviews and was treated nicely in most. One interviewer was a bit obnoxious, being really straight to the point without any introductory questions. That was really awful.
Also, when I was rejected after a very lengthy process, I didn't get a single line of feedback. Even though I politely requested it 4 times with 2 week intervals, the HR person didn't even reply to my emails. Disgusting behavior.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
You have 2 groups of people and are testing 2 drugs.
How would you design and experiment to test the effectiveness of both drug?
Measuring time spent in google search per day per user. We see the average spent going down.
What initial Data analysis would you do?
How do you drill down on this data?
- say the average searches per day per user data goes down but each countries average goes up. How could you explain it?
It was all good, the interviewer was very nice. Technical questions were a bit challenging but overall it was good. The hiring manager was looking for some hands on experience
Back to back interview.
[1]. Mainly ask ML concepts, e.g., how to develop a classifer for youtube video; they will also ask some statistical concepts
[2] Coding for both python and sql
Applied at PhD level so I had two back to back technical interviews. One all stats concepts and the other talking over a hypothetical experiment design and walking through my thought process.
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