An internal Uber ATG recruiter contacted me and set up an initial one-hour phone interview with a live coding test. I was interviewed by two people and assigned one problem.

The two interviewers wasted my precious time by using up nearly 30 minutes to discuss my past work experience, leaving me with only 20 minutes for the actual coding. I was then rejected because I couldn't get all the unit tests to pass, even though I got the first one to pass in the limited time I had.

Write a function that breaks a large SMS message string into substrings, given a length limit per substring. Words must stay together. If a word is longer than the limit, use the word in a new substring and split it as relevant.

python def sms_messages(sms_text_str, limit_int): return split_messages_list

Example input: "Joe is the funniest guy", 6 Example output: ["Joe is", "the", "funnie", "st guy"]