统计专业的去Google能干什么，What do statisticians do at Google?

还是蛮有意思的，不过招的人应该不多吧。
http://www.quora.com/Google/What-do-statisticians-do-at-Google
Michael Hochster, Statistician at Google
A lot of different things. There is something called the Quantitative Analyst job ladder within Google which includes many different titles (Quantitative Analyst, Statistician, Data Scientist. etc) which as far as I can tell are all the same. Who gets which of these titles seems to be mostly a function of when the person was hired.

The largest concentrations of statisticians are in Search and Ads. I have worked in both these areas. In Search, statisticians concentrate on measuring search quality. Google engineers primarily work on making it better, statisticians work on figuring out whether it is better. I know a couple of people in search with PhDs in statistics who work on making search better, but they are called Software Engineers.

I now work in a medium-sized group called Ads Metrics, which is made up mostly of Quantitative Analysts. Many, but not all, are trained in statistics. We work both on building models to help improve ads serving, and measurement (i.e. how to measure whether a change to ads serving is a good thing) The measurement projects are not just one-at-a-time analysis questions but also involve development of tools and processes, for example for carrying out and analyzing experiments on a large scale. I'm being deliberately extremely vague about the details here, sorry.

. ΧThere are several other groups that employ Quantitative Analysts. I don't know too much about most of them: Search Infrastructure (analysis relating to Google's index); Economics (forecasting), Quantitative Marketing (I know nothing at all about this).

For me, the joy of statistics is in answering interesting questions with data. Google abounds both with interesting (to me) questions, vast amounts of data, and powerful tools for working with it. It's a great place to be in my line of work.

google的statistician对academic的要求及其高，我感觉一般都是phd。前几天面挂了之后，在反思要不要读个phd。