  The type II Dirac semimetal PdTe$_2$ is unique in the family of topological
parent materials because it displays a superconducting ground state below 1.7
K. Despite wide speculations on the possibility of an unconventional
topological superconducting phase, tunneling and heat capacity measurements
revealed that the superconducting phase of PdTe$_2$ follows predictions of the
microscopic theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Shriefer (BCS) for conventional
superconductors. The superconducting phase in PdTe$_2$ is further interesting
because it also displays properties that are characteristics of type-I
superconductors and are generally unexpected for binary compounds. Here, from
scanning tunneling spectroscopic measurements we show that the surface of
PdTe$_2$ displays intrinsic electronic inhomegenities in the normal state which
leads to a mixed type I and type II superconducting behaviour along with a
spatial distribution of critical fields in the superconducting state.
Understanding of the origin of such inhomogeneities may be important for
understanding the topological properties of PdTe$_2$ in the normal state.
