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"When you interview for a position as a statistician, you can expect to be asked about your knowledge of statistics, analytical and critical thinking skills, and your ability to draw conclusions from gathered data. Prepare to answer situational questions that may require you to analyze a set of data and explain its meaning or design an experiment to gather important statistical data. Your employer will want to make sure you can use your theoretical knowledge of statistics to solve hands-on, real world problems."

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In addition to lots of stats questions, A/B testing, sql and R coding questions, I was given one of those stupid brain teaser questions. Setup was a "chicken" can move 1 foot at a time. Chickens are in a 10 foot radius circle with no fence. Farmer will hit chicken and cause it to move back 2 feet in the opposite direction if chicken gets closer to the perimeter of the circle. However, farmer will not hit chicken if the chicken will end up equally or closer to the perimeter after the 2 ft retreating move. Describe an algorithm to get the chicken out of the circle without getting hit. How many moves will it take? Is there a shape you can imagine that the chicken could not escape from?
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Algorithm Analyst/Statistician

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
Nov 23, 2016

In addition to lots of stats questions, A/B testing, sql and R coding questions, I was given one of those stupid brain teaser questions. Setup was a "chicken" can move 1 foot at a time. Chickens are in a 10 foot radius circle with no fence. Farmer will hit chicken and cause it to move back 2 feet in the opposite direction if chicken gets closer to the perimeter of the circle. However, farmer will not hit chicken if the chicken will end up equally or closer to the perimeter after the 2 ft retreating move. Describe an algorithm to get the chicken out of the circle without getting hit. How many moves will it take? Is there a shape you can imagine that the chicken could not escape from?

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