I applied online. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2019
Interview
Quite smooth, good communication with the recruiter, good planning, not so good outcome. I went through a first contact with the recruiter, filled a questionnaire and then we schedule a phone technical interview with a data scientist. The job was originally for a position in Zurich, however I was interviewed by a statistician in Mountain View.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on the use of p-values in high dimensional linear regression.
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.
Google Data Scientist Interview Questions | Glassdoor