Data Science applicants have rated the interview process at Google with 4.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn, had a phone screen and then visited Google in Mountain View for an on-site. I had 4 separate interviews. I was told in advance that they would each be on a different topic (stats, coding, data analysis, stats + data analysis) but it turns out that each interviewer seems to evaluate based on all of the topics, so all four of the interviews involved some amount of stats and programming.
he interviews were not very well organized, we started late, rush through one, and two of them were via video chat, which meant that there were some communication difficulties. Nobody told me in my schedule for the day or which interview was which, making it difficult to mentally prepare.
The questions ranged from basic probability and statistics to more applied statistics. Some of them involved rather niche topics though, making it less a test of general knowledge than a test of whether the interviewee studied a particular area in advance of the interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google in Jun 2018
Interview
HR arranged the interview for me and give some material for preparing the interview. That was a video interview for a data scientist position in youtube. The interviewer was very nice. The questions were some easy statistic problems.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google
Interview
I applied through an employee referral. A recruiter contacted me the next day and asked to write up questions that amounted to a 5 page report of qualifications. We also had a phone chat that week. The chat seemed unprofessional because the recruiter was in a noisy area with sounds of cars or people chatting in the background which hurt my ears at regular intervals. I heard that there may be a technical interview to follow up our conversation but I was rejected within a few days.
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Question 1
Would you like to work with small teams or large teams? What direction do you see your career moving in