Google 2026 New Grad OA: Efficient-Solution Requirement and Line-Count Report

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad / Early Career
Result: Awaiting next step
Report time: October 2025

The candidate received the OA recently and completed it two days later. They had also received a Google OA for an internship the previous year, believed that submission was fully correct, and never received a next step.

Assessment details

• The OA contained two questions matching another forum report.
• The instructions emphasized an efficient algorithm.
• After submission, the system displayed the programming language and code line count.
• The candidate did not know whether the line count affected evaluation.

The linked forum reference rendered only as the forum homepage, and this post does not preserve either question's text. No exact practice problem can be linked without guessing.

A commenter asked whether there was a later update, but the source contains no answer.