Applied online, heard back within a day for a 1-hour codility interview with a hiring manager.

During the interview, they asked me to implement a tic-tac-toe game.

There were some parts of code that I was concerned about the verbosity, which I spoke up about. They told me that I do not need to worry about them.

After all I did 80% completed.

After a few hours, I got a rejection email. In the feedback, I was told that my code was verbose.

They should have told me if they reject me b/c of the quality of my code. I cared less about the quality of the code because they told me I did not need to worry about it. sigh

You should implement a tic-tac-toe game.