Practiced on a whiteboard for a week straight and then the actual interview was a live shared editor, completely threw me

Every prep resource I found assumed a whiteboard or a blank google doc, so I drilled that for a week straight. The real interview was VS Code in a shared browser tab with actual syntax highlighting and autocomplete half-working, and somehow that made it harder, not easier. Kept reaching for muscle memory that wasn't there. Next time I'm asking the recruiter what the actual environment looks like instead of assuming.