Google New Grad Campus Timeline: Two-Month Wait for the OA

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad — Campus
Result: OA received; assessment pending
Report time: December 2025
Application: Referral

Timeline

• Around October 6: applied to the campus New Grad SWE role with a referral
• Around December 1: recruiter contacted the candidate
• December 3: received the OA

The candidate was completing a master's degree and graduating in 2025. They had waited roughly two months between applying and receiving the assessment and asked other candidates whether OA questions were fixed within a given time period.

No OA question, platform, duration, or result was available yet, so no practice problem is linked. The candidate planned to update the timeline if the process continued.