Google New Grad OA: Three-Step Coin Collection and Common-Digit Selection

Role: Software Engineer, New Grad
Result: Advanced to interview scheduling
Report time: November 2025

The candidate received the OA after applying to the New Grad opening in early October. The assessment had a seven-day completion window, and the interview-scheduling email arrived the day after completion.

Question 1

Tokens move exactly three cells at a time on a one-dimensional board. Return the maximum number of coins that can be collected.

Practice: Maximum Coins With Moving Tokens

Question 2

Given two-digit integers, return the largest number of array elements that all share one common digit.

Practice: Maximum Elements With a Common Digit

The original report was terse and did not add constraints beyond the repeated OA contracts preserved in the linked practice questions.