Was sent a packet explaining the interview process.

During the initial day and time of the interview, none of the interviewers showed up, and the interview was scheduled for later that day. The recruiter was extremely apologetic about it and handled the situation in an extremely professional manner.

The interview itself was a one-hour, live coding challenge using Codility, where the interviewer would chat with you throughout. It took about 3 business days and some prodding to get a rejection email with feedback.

For anybody doing the coding interview, be aware that the interviewer is looking for more than just "can they solve the problem in the allotted time?". They are also looking for a very specific way of approaching a problem, which makes the challenge more difficult if you're neurodivergent.

In my case, I got rejected because "it seems like you didn't fully digest and understand the problem/requirements before diving into the solution". My code failed one of the test cases initially, and I had to go back and fix it to correct for the corner case scenario that I missed. I was able to do all this and get all the tests to pass within the time frame, but that wasn't enough to satisfy the interviewer.

Take what you will from my experience.

You are given a string num consisting of digits only.

Return the largest palindromic integer (in the form of a string) that can be formed using digits taken from num. It should not contain leading zeroes.