Messy. The process started with an Airbnb recruiter reaching out to me. I agreed to an interview and was scheduled for the following week.

Come time to start the interview, I never received a call. I went back to check if my number was correct, and it was. I emailed to inquire what happened, only to find out the recruiter had transferred, quit, or been fired. Luckily, the second recruiter got things back on track.

After a couple more emails, I learned the second recruiter would transfer me to a third HR person. I had to wait another couple of days to find out the interview was scheduled a second time. During this back and forth, I explained that I was looking for an SRE/DevOps position, but they still wanted to test coding skills. Fine.

Come interview time, I was asked the palindrome question. After the general introduction and Q&A regarding the problem, I had 30 minutes left to code. While I don't code day to day, I know my way around. I began to construct the brute force solution as agreed upon. After completing and passing all test cases provided, I thanked the interviewer and hung up.

Palindrome from LeetCode