Google New Grad Canada OA: Repeated Token and Common-Digit Questions

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad
Result: OA passed; transcript requested for the next step
Report time: November 2025

Timeline

• Late September: applied
• October 20: received the OA
• November 11: received the transcript request and next-step update

Question 1

A one-dimensional board contains tokens and coins. Every token moves exactly three cells to the right. Return the maximum number of coins that can be collected.

Practice: Maximum Coins With Moving Tokens

Question 2

Given two-digit numbers, return the largest count of values that all contain one common digit.

Practice: Maximum Elements With a Common Digit

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