Google Data Scientist Interview
Questions & Process
What 133 candidates said about the rounds, the
questions and how long the wait really is.
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Questions candidates reported
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Engineering accounts for 10,860 of 133 reports, so company-wide questions may lean toward that function. Pick your role above for questions from your own loop.
“Where do you live?”
Read reports →“Who are you?”
Read reports →“When given an open-ended data science problem, how would you approach it from a practical perspective?”
Read reports →“What did you do?”
Read reports →“Why you?”
Read report →“What is your name?”
Read report →“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
Read report →“Tell me about yourself?”
Read report →“Walk me through your resume.”
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The interview process
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“The recruiter reached out to me and fixed a date. Then I got an information email from the HR team. On the interview day, the interviewer connected with me on Google Meet and we used Google Docs to communicate during the interview.”Candidate-reported process
“The interview process has two rounds. The first round has coding questions and some basic statistics knowledge. The second round is team matching, which is not technical and more like a simple conversation.”Candidate-reported process
“first a general technical interview. Then, they do team matches. You might talk with many teams as long as you pass the first one. If there is a good team match, then you get the offer.”Candidate-reported processMore reports lockedRead 300+ more interview experiences
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