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title: "Collaborative IDE with Terminal for Interviews | CoderPad"
description: "A VS Code-style IDE with full shell access, IntelliSense and live shared cursors. Candidates install packages, run code and use AI in the browser."
canonical: "https://coderpad.io/features/collaborative-ide/"
last_modified: "2025-05-01 06:55:28"
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CoderPad Interview

# Collaborative IDE with integrated terminal

Familiar, intuitive, and ready to use. Immediately access the proper environment with a real development server. No set up necessary.

- Full shell access
- Install dependencies
- File tree
- LSP support
- ChatGPT embedded
- Code recorded for playback
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## Total flexibility with full shell access directly in the browser

Get access to a shell running in the code execution container.

- Use CLI tools and run commands as you would in a terminal, making quick code actions easy.
- Install any dependencies you want, such as npm packages.
- Drag and drop files from your desktop or GitHub repo and arrange them in your file tree.

## Looks familiar? It’s just like VS Code, the most popular IDE in the world

Almost identical to your day-to-day dev environment for a realistic interviewing experience.

- Run code snippets to test a section of code.
- IntelliSense autocomplete and syntax error highlighting.
- Vim and Emacs so you can choose your preferred keybindings.

## Live collaboration

Code with the candidate. Make it realistic as you build an app or interact with databases right in the IDE.

- Real time collaboration with no need to set up an environment.
- Colored cursors make it easy to share the coding space and everything is seamlessly synchronized.
- All code recorded for playback later.

## Execute code in all the most popular languages and frameworks

CoderPad supports nearly every language used professionally.

- 45+ languages and frameworks.
- Jupyter notebooks to interview data scientists.
- Ready-to-use questions from our question bank.

## Access ChatGPT without leaving the IDE

Activate our AI assist tool to get insight into how job candidates use developer tools to solve problems faster and smarter.

- In-pad access for a streamlined experience.
- Interviewers and candidates can interact with ChatGPT in the same window and conversation.
- Everything is stored for review later.