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Hacker Rank OA With an AI-Assisted Coding Question

GoogleSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Apr 2026

As the title says, I applied around the end of February this year. Last Tuesday I did the hiring assessment, and right after that the OA got sent out. It's a Hacker Rank test, and it feels pretty different from the CodeSignal OA that the earlier new-grad wave got, so I wanted to write it up and share. There are two questions total, and they explicitly said some questions let you use an AI tool, w…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.