The interview involved an abstract scenario in which I was given symbolic representations of the probabilities of a few outcomes. I was asked to come up with closed-form representations of the probabilities of certain events, describe my thought process, and justify any assumptions I made.
In the second half, we moved onto more conventional statistics and probability questions.
Say we have X ~ Uniform(0, 1) and Y ~ Uniform(0, 1). What is the expected value of the minimum of X and Y?
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Google Data Center Controls Engineer role in Canada.
Google's interview process for their Data Center Controls Engineer roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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