They asked about juggling long-term projects with less important short-term projects.
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How many applications does Google receive in a day?
Some basic stats questions, like test, pdf, cdf of a distribution.
Describe how you approach a new problem/dataset.
There was one with 'what-if' questions involving how to analyze certain aspects of their business, including finding trends in ad bidding behavior and detecting contextual advertisers who were gaming the system. Open-ended enough that it wasn't clear if a right answer existed, but they may have had one in mind.
Lots of experimental design questions
calculate the probability of winning in a gambling game.
Phone interviewer asked some questions about my research, then gave me a Google-related question involving a difference-in-differences design, and another applied question involving creating a prediction system.
Small sample statistics. Time series question.
Signed an NDA, so can’t share details, but questions were a mix of programming and data wrangling questions (whiteboard), behavioral questions, and scenario questions.
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