I applied in-person. I interviewed at Google (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The interviewer was ~5 min late for the interview. She couldn’t connect to the handouts at beginning, so she called my phone instead. She first introduced the group and projects for about 15 min, followed by the question session. She has strong accent, and I tried my best to follow her on the question, confirmed with her.
However, from the second question, she couldn’t explain the question clearly at all. I asked her if she could write on google doc, and she declined it at first. Later on, she started to write on google doc very slowly, but couldn’t get the key point of the question. She described the question till there is only 5 min left, and then asked for my answers. There is almost no time left for me. After I briefly described my ideas of the question, she thinks the time is almost up. I am not sure if she has more questions, because what she described and what she asked seems not relevant.
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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