Google Campus Early Career OA: Manual Tests, IDE Limits, GenAI Warning, and Score Reuse

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad / Early Career
Result: OA completed
Report time: October 2024
Application: Referral

The candidate received the OA three to four months after applying. It contained two questions in 90 minutes, but the linked question pages no longer rendered in the legacy source.

Assessment environment

• Candidates had to create their own test inputs and expected outputs.
• They could use a personal IDE and paste code into the assessment.
• Each question could use a different programming language.
• Google's editor lacked some shortcuts, including easy multi-line commenting and moving code blocks.
• The hiring team could see only pass or fail, according to the displayed assessment text.
• A passing score was reported as reusable for 24 months.
• The platform displayed lines of code after submission.

GenAI rule

Before coding, the assessment repeatedly warned candidates not to use GenAI tools and stated that cheating could freeze applications for one year.

The associated online survey was a personality assessment. The post does not preserve the actual two coding prompts or exact survey items, so no practice link is asserted.