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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.

How would you assess the validity of the result?

Experiment Validity

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

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

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?

Let’s say we have a table with an <code>id</code> and <code>name</code> fields. The table holds over 100 million rows and we want to sample a random row in the table without throttling the database.

Write a query to randomly sample a row from this table.

Input:

<code>big_table</code> table

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Columns</th>
<th>Type</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>id</code></td>
<td>INTEGER</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><code>name</code></td>
<td>VARCHAR</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Write a query to randomly sample a row from a big table.

Random SQL Sample

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Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Sea business. This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of the leadership team for a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business. As a Senior Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business. In this role you will be responsible for: <ul><li>forming and leading high performing, large multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs</li><li>producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business</li><li>working with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs</li><li>defining the project specific processes, practices and tools to be used to ensure delivery</li><li>defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within</li><li>the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality</li><li>the day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks</li><li>managing and reporting the engineering efficiency for the project</li><li>the identification of re-use opportunities across the project</li><li>the alignment of the project defined solution to the Product Roadmap</li><li>acting as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads</li></ul> The successful candidate will have an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes with demonstrable experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. Knowledge and experience of naval products would be beneficial to this role. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model: <ul><li>acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus</li><li>dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives</li><li>engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal</li><li>creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement</li><li>supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers</li></ul> This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery. In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency. At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles. Great journeys start here, apply now!

Systems Engineering Manager Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you have an interest in working on cutting-edge next generation products? Do you enjoy being able to generate or initiate innovative solutions? Do you want to be part of a team of leading specialists that are designing solutions that make tomorrow possible, today? Then look no further… What the role has to offer: <ul><li>Working on a new & exciting product and expanding customer base</li><li>Working with new technology</li><li>Opportunity to join a well-established knowledgeable team</li></ul> About the team/rewardsYou will be managing a multifunctional close-knit team made up of Mechanical, Electrical and Software engineers. Your job within the team will be to deliver the design solution by delegating day-to-day tasks for the team and ensuring the team are working effectively. This team of around half a dozen are hardworking, sociable and welcoming with a strong work ethic. Our OpportunityYou will be responsible for leading and coordinating high performance multi-discipline engineering teams through the full engineering design lifecycle. You will plan and prioritise engineering activities and resources in order to get projects to completion; meeting quality schedule and budgetary requirements. You will also develop the capability of engineers by coaching and sharing your knowledge in a continuous professional development environment. As well as managing risks and identifying opportunities during the project lifecycle. You will help to create an environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement. Additionally, ensuring that the project deliverables meets the customer's requirements and contract specification. Lastly, you will communicate effectively, professionally and in a timely manner with internal personnel, external customers, consultants and subcontractors. About You You will have experience in system design and development of complex hardware and software systems together with proven experience in working collaboratively across multiple product development and specialist domain teams. You will have working knowledge of Safety (SIL) and a track record of working and delivering on solutions for a defence programme, together with significant experience interfacing with internal and external customers, understanding system requirements in the defence domain. You will be highly customer focused with excellent communications skills. As well as the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. You will also have experience of working with technical requirements, statements of work, integration, verification and validation, acceptance criteria. Additionally, experience of writing technical documentation (plans, specifications, statements of work, reports). Lastly, experience with managing/contributing to bids. What We Can OfferWe’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Company Story The future is full of excitement and change: each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today. Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant: <ul><li>To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.</li><li>To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.</li><li>And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.</li></ul> FlexibilityYour health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner. Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Sea business. This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of the leadership team for a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business. As a Senior Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business. In this role you will be responsible for: <ul><li>forming and leading high performing, large multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs</li><li>producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business</li><li>working with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs</li><li>defining the project specific processes, practices and tools to be used to ensure delivery</li><li>defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within</li><li>the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality</li><li>the day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks</li><li>managing and reporting the engineering efficiency for the project</li><li>the identification of re-use opportunities across the project</li><li>the alignment of the project defined solution to the Product Roadmap</li><li>acting as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads</li></ul> The successful candidate will have an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes with demonstrable experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. Knowledge and experience of naval products would be beneficial to this role. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model: <ul><li>acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus</li><li>dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives</li><li>engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal</li><li>creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement</li><li>supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers</li></ul> This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

Engineering Manager Job Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of an Engineering Manager in the Fuzes business. This role will be part of a delivery team focussed on specific new development and support projects within the Fuzes business. As an Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Manager, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering development projects. In this role you will be responsible for: <ul><li>leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs</li><li>the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project</li><li>managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme</li><li>work with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs</li><li>defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within</li><li>the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality</li><li>day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks</li><li>managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project</li><li>the identification of re-use opportunities across the project</li><li>act as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads</li></ul> The successful candidate will have a strong background in engineering with experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. Knowledge and experience of fuzing design and products would be beneficial to this role. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:<ul><li>acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus</li><li>dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives</li><li>engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal</li><li>creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement</li><li>supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers</li></ul> This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

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