I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Fitbit (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Google interview (because Fitbit is owned by Google), after phone screening and one interview, I gave a presentation and had 5 interviews in one day. One interview about Googliness, one with programming, one with someone who was on a team outside of Fitbit, another with an international Fitbit team member, and two with people on the research team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You hypothesize that beard length will affect swim speed. How would you test this?
I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Fitbit (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2021
Interview
Lots of questions about how I would design research experiments and analyze them with statistical tests, while thinking on my feet. There were 8 interviews. The recruiter was excellent at guiding through the interview process and setting expectations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an experiment to study how beard length affects swimming speed. Who would you include as research participants, how would you do this experiment, and how would you analyze the data?
Phone interview, it is with the hiring manager after the first phone screening; it is a technical interview about my background and how to do diagnostics. It was about 45 minutes; Overall it went OK.