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by 120bits 1857 days ago
I came to know replit after a coding interview. It was coding editor on the page and I picked Java. I was used to leetcode coding environment. I use tab. My biggest mistake. Every time write something and hit tab, the editor goes out of focus. It was so frustrating that I could barely focus on the coding part. Not only that, it wasn't full screen coding editor. I was coding in small window and had to scroll up and down. I didn't clear the interview, but the memories for replit stuck with me.
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This is impossible. There was never a time where the Replit editor didn't capture the tab key (that would be dumb). It must've been something else. Maybe it was a homemade "REPL" the company you were interviewing with made?
I was surprised too! I was sent a link and then it opened the replit site. The window was split vertically and one half it was coder editor. It looked like a "free" version where you can type some code and run it. And every time I hit tab the editor went out of focus.