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<p>You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many <em>t</em>-tests. What considerations should be made?</p>


<p>What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?</p>

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

<p>Let’s say that your company is running a standard control and variant AB test on a feature to increase conversion rates on the landing page. The PM checks the results and finds a .04 p-value.</p>

<p>How would you assess the validity of the result?</p>


Experiment Validity

<p>Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.</p>

<p>What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?</p>


<p>What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?</p>

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

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<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>About The Role<p>Abnormal Security is looking for a Software Engineer II who is a solid software developer with a strong interest in Security & Privacy to join the Platform Security team. The Platform Security team owns the Security and Privacy platform services and infrastructure to uphold industry standards for the company's security posture and customer data protection. This role will design, develop, and release Secure Service to Service communication frameworks and toolings, Customer Data Security & Privacy workflows, and then integrate them with Security Operational analytics and auditing services to monitor, protect, and secure Abnormal infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have:</p><ul><li>Security mindset - ability to identify potential security flaws in any step of the software development lifecycle.</li><li>Ability to translate Security & Privacy requirements into technical requirements and drive end to end execution of the projects.</li><li>Opportunity to facilitate and drive cross team collaboration with product engineering teams to adopt security best practices and secure-by-design platform services and components.</li><li>Opportunity to grow into Senior Software Engineer on the team and deliver bigger scope, higher impact, and additional leadership responsibilities.</li></ul>What You Will Do <ul><li>Own, lead, and deliver the Platform Security features, services, and components for Abnormal microservices such as Zero-Trust networking, Secure Service to Service communications, Customer Data Security & Privacy, Secret Management, etc…</li><li>Design and develop secure and scalable customer integration frameworks and toolings to integrate Abnormal ecosystem with external applications such as Salesforce, Slack, Github, Zoom, etc… to enable Secure by design Multi Product Platform.</li><li>Integrate Platform and Infrastructure components with Security Operational analytics and auditing tooling such as Okta, Dazz, Splunk, SIEM.</li><li>Utilize prior industry experience to contribute and deliver the Platform Security team and the Platform & Infrastructure division roadmap.</li><li>Reconcile Platform and Security requirements to build a secure platform while enabling global engineering teams to deliver high quality software at high velocity.</li><li>Contribute to vendor review and selection for related software purchases in key problem areas such as VPN solution, Just In Time access, and other Security monitoring tools.</li></ul>Must Have<ul><li>BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other related engineering field.</li><li>2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.</li><li>Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.</li><li>Experience with system design and cloud infrastructure.</li><li>Experience with Golang and Python programming languages.</li><li>Proven track record of leading feature development and delivering high quality software.</li></ul>Nice To Have <ul><li>Knowledge of Authentication & Authorization and Network Security problem space, best practices, and related technologies.</li><li>Understanding of distributed computing, CAP theorem, and system design tradeoffs.</li><li>Ability to differentiate must-have versus nice-to-have Security and Privacy requirements.</li></ul><p>#LI-RT1</p><div><div><hr /><p><br />At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.</p></div><div>Base salary range:</div><div>$148,800—$175,000 USD</div></div></div></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>About the Role<p>Abnormal Security is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Threat Response Engine team, an essential part of our mission to protect global enterprises from diverse and evolving email threats. At Abnormal, we've taken a novel approach to email security, utilizing behavioral AI to identify and counter complex attacks in real time. Recognized as one of the top cybersecurity startups, our technology now secures over 15% of the Fortune 500, offering advanced protection that adapts to each customer's unique threat landscape.</p><p>In this role, you'll be central to developing and scaling out our Automated Threat Response Engine—a system designed to adapt our detection system to the various threat environments our customers are exposed to. As every organization faces unique and changing attack patterns, our Threat Response Engine enables Abnormal to respond precisely and quickly by automatically training, deploying, and evaluating detectors based on observed attacks within each customer's environment and acts as a complement to our core detection models. This system is central to the Detection Team's strategy as Abnormal scales out to serve customers in multiple regions, each of which sees a unique threat landscape.</p>What you will do <ul><li>Architect, design, build our Automated Threat Response engine - this engine is a key part of Detection Team's strategy to scale in order to support 10X customer growth</li><li>Decompose, design and deploy our foundational components of our scaled scoring framework to feed and empower our threat response engine</li><li>Operationalize a highly autonomous and scalable threat Response engine for multiple datacenters and regions</li><li>Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, ML engineers, Data Scientists and Threat Analysts and correlate feedback to our detection strategy</li><li>Participate in Sprint planning, code reviews, standups, and other aspects of the software development life cycle</li></ul>Must Haves <ul><li>3+ years experience designing and building software applications in Python with a particular focus on backend development.</li><li>2+ years experience in developing and deploying impactful customer centric product features. </li><li>Proven experience translating business requirements into software requirements and building scalable systems with high quality implementations.</li><li>Strong ability to independently drive and solve complex problems end to end.</li><li>Experience debugging using log analytic tools, metrics, and other signals to quickly and autonomously solve real-time-solving novel problems.</li><li>Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams</li><li>BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or other related engineering field</li></ul>Nice to Have <ul><li>Experience with big data, statistics, and Machine Learning</li><li>Experience with Airflow, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Pandas</li><li>Experience with algorithms and optimization</li></ul><p></p><p>#LI-RT1</p><div><div><hr /><p><br />At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.</p></div><div>Base salary range:</div><div>$148,800—$175,000 USD</div></div></div></div>

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