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They offered to hire him before insinuating he was a bad/demanding intern, as well. This is standard manipulative behavior and has little benefit to anyone besi

They offered to hire him before insinuating he was a bad/demanding intern, as well. This is standard manipulative behavior and has little benefit to anyone besides attempting to make the intern feel bad. This isn't the first time I've seen a founder resort to this exact type of behavior before threatening legal action.

archibaldJ 5y ago
I would play devil's advocate here and say that the situation is probably muddier than it is presented in the blog. Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take) Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire.
- debacle 5y ago
  Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
  - archibaldJ 5y ago
    > that has no real practical use Well this can be developed into a great replit competitor
    - opnitro 5y ago
      I don't think this is true. As the author notes, he doesn't have any ability to scale due to simplistic design decisions he made. As the author notes, the hard part of this business is not "write a webserver that takes a program from a user and runs it"
      - dsr_ 5y ago
        Indeed, a great deal of current security work is on the problem of not running other people's code.
        opnitro 5y ago
        Yeah, the entire premise of this kind of company is asking strangers to give you arbitrary code and then running it. I imagine there ares some important design decisions there that are not trivial to replicate. At it seems the author made _no_ attempt to replicate them, as he said anyone could knock his server over easily w/ a fork bomb.
        rot13xor 5y ago
        I thought these type of interpreters ran in the user's browser. Cross-compile the interpreter to JS or webasm, stream it to the user after they click on which language to use. Built-in libraries could be streamed on-demand the same way or they can be bundled with the interpreter. It would solve the scalability and security problem.
      - archibaldJ 5y ago
        If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there Or at least it would save up a lot of boostrapping cost. Otherwise this whole thing indeed makes no sense.
        wutbrodo 5y ago
        > If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there I think the idea is that it's trivial to take what you've described and add "a small amount of work that an early-career engineer (even if talented) describes as easy".
      - yellowapple 5y ago
        Even so, the fact that Repl.it felt so threatened by it as to threaten legal action and bully someone into taking it down speaks volumes to its viability as a competitor. The inability to scale can be fixed - probably not trivially, obviously, but it's very much a possibility.
    - 3np 5y ago
      Or self-hosted, on your own workstation or private server. It has great practical use despite not yielding corporate or investment profits.
- jakelazaroff 5y ago
  > Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take) I don’t get what you’re saying here. It’s not a breach of trust to speak publicly about someone threatening legal action against you.
  - seoaeu 5y ago
    If fact, most people would probably consider threatening legal action to be forfeiting any trust the two might previously have had.
    - sintaxi 5y ago
      Agreed. Also denying the request for a courtesy call after the takedown was a bit insulting considering the work was trashed without a fight.
- MattGaiser 5y ago
  > a level of trust here Trust is destroyed as soon as your first reaction to something is to summon lawyers. I actually somewhat agreed until I read "I will be engaging our lawyers on Monday if it is still up by then."
  - jjeaff 5y ago
    Nothing worse than petty threats in corporate speak. He must be serious since he was planning to engage with his lawyers rather than just circle back with them.
- blazespin 5y ago
  Yeah, we are just getting one side. That said, all the possible IP in something like this is in security, reliability, scalability and good UX. Severely doubt the OP spent much time on that. The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens.
  - whymauri 5y ago
    >The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens. I agree it's not uncommon for first-time founders/CEOs to see phantom ghosts and lash out; however, we should be careful to not normalize that kind of behavior. Founders often hold mentorship or supervisory positions over their current and ex-employees, so it's harmful when they react with aggression and manipulation. At small companies, that betrayal of trust cuts deeper than it does in more common manager-employee relationships, IMO.
  - MattGaiser 5y ago
    > The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens. That doesn't give them a free pass to lash out at people.
  - michaelmrose 5y ago
    Why are we making excuses for highly paid professionals behavior in the public performance of their job.
    - passivate 5y ago
      It was a private conversation that was made public.
      - lal 5y ago
        It was a private conversation which Amjad himself stated he intended to turn into a public lawsuit. There should be no expectation of privacy here.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
  In regards to your comment about the situation being a bit muddier than presented: I would suggest that you take a look through the unabridged version as linked in the post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com/a/OaEOwu2 https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com... ) Rather than downvoting your comment I opted to reply to it since it may provide a bit more information for you to base your judgement on about "things being muddier". As for your last comment about their abilities - forgive me but that sounds incredibly unfair and unwarranted and verges on being a personal attack.
  - andi999 5y ago
    Interesting. Now I think it really might be a (accidental) white box clone. A lot of stuff looks obvious in hindsight, especially if it is the best solution to the problem. But then I believe this is legal (depending on your jurisdiction).
- hitekker 5y ago
  > at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, From reading the emails, it looks like the Replit CEO "trusted" that the OP was cowed into submission.
- arp242 5y ago
  Unless there was an NDA or some such (and since this isn't mentioned anywhere in the emails or post, I assume there's not) you can hardly sue someone for re-using knowledge they acquired during their job. How are you even supposed to know what the supposed super-magic super-secret sauce is if you never agreed to an NDA? If that was the case almost everyone with a GitHub project could be sued to infinity, because almost everyone learns tons of things every day while working.
  - allo37 5y ago
    That part kind of surprised me: I figured pretty much every job (even internships) makes you sign some sort of noncompete agreement these days.
    - michaelmrose 5y ago
      Repl.it is based in California where noncompetes are especially difficult to enforce. https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in-california/ https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in... Specifically California Business and Professions Code Section 16600, “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” In addition such issues must by law be decided in California courts and if they forced the issue into court and lost they would be liable for the cost of his defense. Even outside of California there are limits to what you can enforce. Judges aren't liable to find that an infinite duration noncompete reasonable. Another example in Washington State its now impossible to obtain noncompetes for anyone paid less than a rate of 100k per annum as an employee or 250k per annum as a contractor and they are limited to 18 months duration. If you improperly assert a noncompete you are liable for 5000 or actual damages whichever is greater. They are probably not asserting a noncompete because it is functionally impossible for them to do so. They would have to assert that he was making use of trade secrets or that in some nebulous way his design belonged to them. eg trade dress https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/can-i-trademark-the-appearance-of-my-website.html https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/... The answer is you need a lawsuit to decide but probably not.
- ignoramous 5y ago
  > Also there appers to be a level of trust here. Amjad, replit's CEO, offered to hire OP, later accused them of copying their "internal designs", then threatened them with lawyers replit's millions can buy, eventually to stonewall and stop replying to their emails. What kind of trust is that? > Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire. That's a valid perspective, alright. One that's minority I sincerely hope.
  - kyawzazaw 5y ago
    I'd say he is pretty darn talented
- bccdee 5y ago
  I'm pretty skeptical. I think a rational actor wouldn't have made legal threats. Even if OP's project does somehow use some secret insight from replit, it's certainly not a threat to replit's business in any way. Legal action would be a waste of time, money, and PR. Which means that the legal threats levelled against OP are presumably coming from a place of emotion and personal resentment, and I'm very much not prepared to extend the benefit of the doubt to replit under those circumstances.
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  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    CEOs get very invested in their projects. It's pretty much expected. It's their entire life. Many of them have invested everything into their companies, and are terrified of failures (there's an awful lot of FAIL out there). Different Principals have different ways of evaluating threats, and reacting to them. At first glance, this seems like an awful mistake, on the part of the Replit people (Can you say "own goal"? I knew you could!). Maybe there's more to the tale than appears here, but it does seem fairly straightforward; assuming that the emails shared tell the whole story. I hope that everyone finds a way past this, and comes out OK. One thing that I will say, is that the OP seems to be pretty sharp. He's young, and maybe he reacted more quickly and naively than a cynical old bastard like Yours Truly would, but he has done a pretty cool job on his project. It might not be "ship-ready," but it sounds like a great demonstration of his capabilities. Also, as Elon Musk shows, CEOs can cause tremendous damage, if they go off-script. Being a CEO of a public/funded company is a fairly awesome Responsibility. It needs to be taken seriously. I'd say that this very thread shows the damage that can be done to the company. Having this pinned at #1 on HN for all this time is devastating. It's actually kind of horrifying. Like watching a slow-motion train wreck. A lot of Replit employees and VCs are going to take it in the shorts from this. He's probably got some 'splainin' to do... I can't remember the company, but there's a famous object lesson of a UK CEO that destroyed his life's work and corporation, by mentioning an upcoming product too early.
- wutbrodo 5y ago
  It's not the whole picture, but the article links to the full email exchange. It's difficult for me to imagine what missing information would lead to the CEO's messages being appropriate.
  - sintaxi 5y ago
    OP did take the project offline - which shows there is at least some doubt in his own mind.
    - Nekhrimah 5y ago
      My understanding based on the blog post was that it was cautionary due to the threat of legal action. It seems clear that there isn't any doubt - it's caution due to the stakes.
    - vidarh 5y ago
      When faced with an irrational actor making legal threats the rational choice might well be to back down even if you're 100% in the right but your loss from backing down is minor, so it tells us nothing.
- jstanley 5y ago
  > Not sure how talented OP is. Based on the commit log in the article, he added support for running code in 79 programming languages in 4 days. I'd say he's probably pretty talented.
- michaelmrose 5y ago
  I don't think anyone who doesn't work for you has any obligation whatsoever to consider your image. As a CEO and public face of a company you should go ahead and assume that anyone you threaten or badmouth will go ahead and talk about it online, on the news, or with a bullhorn at the local mall. He willingly traded some percentage chance at a competitor using an open source project to steal some percentage of his business for this PR nightmare. Personally I think this effort shows the bar for such a project is pretty low so I don't think shutting it down was a good trade off. I think it shows immaturity, bad will, bad faith and honestly its more of a case study in whom not to work for. Most people they would want to hire are liable to have multiple options. They can ill afford to be an undesirable choice.
- anand-bala 5y ago
  Well, the author did post the entire email thread (redacting information that may be proprietary) on Imgur. Personally, I think the Replit CEO could have explained what the specific issues were before threatening to sue. Since there was no explanation on the CEO's part, I think it's perfectly warranted for the author to make this public.
- archibaldJ 5y ago
  Interesting to see my post fluctuating between -4~4 points in the first few hours before settling down with the downvotes :) Thanks guys for the comments. Definitely helps to view this matter from more angles, and it's clearer now. This is certainly a case study of who not to work for. (I didn't know so much about Replit and its CEO prior and totally missed the totalitarian vibe he is giving) Curious to see how much the Replit community & ecosystem would be affected this event. This is now on the first page of HN Search https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
jtouri 5y ago
Reading this part really made my head shake. Attacking a former intern like that, why would anyone want to intern there after this?
- zenlikethat 5y ago
  That's why I'm glad the OP spoke up. Abusive behavior like this shouldn't be tolerated in the industry and is sadly common. Now I know to avoid this company and individual.
- IshKebab 5y ago
  Who would want to use replit after reading that? They might have just killed their company. All it would really take is for this guy to put his site back up and add shared links.
  - akudha 5y ago
    The other day, someone mentioned avoiding Chinese products and I argued it is not an easy thing to do. But sites like these? Easy decision. After this circus/drama, this site goes into my don't even visit the URL list. What a shitty behavior.
- mssundaram 5y ago
  You should check out Replit's Glassdoor reviews - avoid!

archibaldJ 5y ago

I would play devil's advocate here and say that the situation is probably muddier than it is presented in the blog. Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take) Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire.

debacle 5y ago
Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
- archibaldJ 5y ago
  > that has no real practical use Well this can be developed into a great replit competitor
  - opnitro 5y ago
    I don't think this is true. As the author notes, he doesn't have any ability to scale due to simplistic design decisions he made. As the author notes, the hard part of this business is not "write a webserver that takes a program from a user and runs it"
    - dsr_ 5y ago
      Indeed, a great deal of current security work is on the problem of not running other people's code.
      - opnitro 5y ago
        Yeah, the entire premise of this kind of company is asking strangers to give you arbitrary code and then running it. I imagine there ares some important design decisions there that are not trivial to replicate. At it seems the author made _no_ attempt to replicate them, as he said anyone could knock his server over easily w/ a fork bomb.
      - rot13xor 5y ago
        I thought these type of interpreters ran in the user's browser. Cross-compile the interpreter to JS or webasm, stream it to the user after they click on which language to use. Built-in libraries could be streamed on-demand the same way or they can be bundled with the interpreter. It would solve the scalability and security problem.
    - archibaldJ 5y ago
      If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there Or at least it would save up a lot of boostrapping cost. Otherwise this whole thing indeed makes no sense.
      - wutbrodo 5y ago
        > If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there I think the idea is that it's trivial to take what you've described and add "a small amount of work that an early-career engineer (even if talented) describes as easy".
    - yellowapple 5y ago
      Even so, the fact that Repl.it felt so threatened by it as to threaten legal action and bully someone into taking it down speaks volumes to its viability as a competitor. The inability to scale can be fixed - probably not trivially, obviously, but it's very much a possibility.
  - 3np 5y ago
    Or self-hosted, on your own workstation or private server. It has great practical use despite not yielding corporate or investment profits.
jakelazaroff 5y ago
> Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take) I don’t get what you’re saying here. It’s not a breach of trust to speak publicly about someone threatening legal action against you.
- seoaeu 5y ago
  If fact, most people would probably consider threatening legal action to be forfeiting any trust the two might previously have had.
  - sintaxi 5y ago
    Agreed. Also denying the request for a courtesy call after the takedown was a bit insulting considering the work was trashed without a fight.
MattGaiser 5y ago
> a level of trust here Trust is destroyed as soon as your first reaction to something is to summon lawyers. I actually somewhat agreed until I read "I will be engaging our lawyers on Monday if it is still up by then."
- jjeaff 5y ago
  Nothing worse than petty threats in corporate speak. He must be serious since he was planning to engage with his lawyers rather than just circle back with them.
blazespin 5y ago
Yeah, we are just getting one side. That said, all the possible IP in something like this is in security, reliability, scalability and good UX. Severely doubt the OP spent much time on that. The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens.
- whymauri 5y ago
  >The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens. I agree it's not uncommon for first-time founders/CEOs to see phantom ghosts and lash out; however, we should be careful to not normalize that kind of behavior. Founders often hold mentorship or supervisory positions over their current and ex-employees, so it's harmful when they react with aggression and manipulation. At small companies, that betrayal of trust cuts deeper than it does in more common manager-employee relationships, IMO.
- MattGaiser 5y ago
  > The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens. That doesn't give them a free pass to lash out at people.
- michaelmrose 5y ago
  Why are we making excuses for highly paid professionals behavior in the public performance of their job.
  - passivate 5y ago
    It was a private conversation that was made public.
    - lal 5y ago
      It was a private conversation which Amjad himself stated he intended to turn into a public lawsuit. There should be no expectation of privacy here.
Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
In regards to your comment about the situation being a bit muddier than presented: I would suggest that you take a look through the unabridged version as linked in the post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com/a/OaEOwu2 https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com... ) Rather than downvoting your comment I opted to reply to it since it may provide a bit more information for you to base your judgement on about "things being muddier". As for your last comment about their abilities - forgive me but that sounds incredibly unfair and unwarranted and verges on being a personal attack.
- andi999 5y ago
  Interesting. Now I think it really might be a (accidental) white box clone. A lot of stuff looks obvious in hindsight, especially if it is the best solution to the problem. But then I believe this is legal (depending on your jurisdiction).
hitekker 5y ago
> at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, From reading the emails, it looks like the Replit CEO "trusted" that the OP was cowed into submission.
arp242 5y ago
Unless there was an NDA or some such (and since this isn't mentioned anywhere in the emails or post, I assume there's not) you can hardly sue someone for re-using knowledge they acquired during their job. How are you even supposed to know what the supposed super-magic super-secret sauce is if you never agreed to an NDA? If that was the case almost everyone with a GitHub project could be sued to infinity, because almost everyone learns tons of things every day while working.
- allo37 5y ago
  That part kind of surprised me: I figured pretty much every job (even internships) makes you sign some sort of noncompete agreement these days.
  - michaelmrose 5y ago
    Repl.it is based in California where noncompetes are especially difficult to enforce. https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in-california/ https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in... Specifically California Business and Professions Code Section 16600, “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” In addition such issues must by law be decided in California courts and if they forced the issue into court and lost they would be liable for the cost of his defense. Even outside of California there are limits to what you can enforce. Judges aren't liable to find that an infinite duration noncompete reasonable. Another example in Washington State its now impossible to obtain noncompetes for anyone paid less than a rate of 100k per annum as an employee or 250k per annum as a contractor and they are limited to 18 months duration. If you improperly assert a noncompete you are liable for 5000 or actual damages whichever is greater. They are probably not asserting a noncompete because it is functionally impossible for them to do so. They would have to assert that he was making use of trade secrets or that in some nebulous way his design belonged to them. eg trade dress https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/can-i-trademark-the-appearance-of-my-website.html https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/... The answer is you need a lawsuit to decide but probably not.
ignoramous 5y ago
> Also there appers to be a level of trust here. Amjad, replit's CEO, offered to hire OP, later accused them of copying their "internal designs", then threatened them with lawyers replit's millions can buy, eventually to stonewall and stop replying to their emails. What kind of trust is that? > Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire. That's a valid perspective, alright. One that's minority I sincerely hope.
- kyawzazaw 5y ago
  I'd say he is pretty darn talented
bccdee 5y ago
I'm pretty skeptical. I think a rational actor wouldn't have made legal threats. Even if OP's project does somehow use some secret insight from replit, it's certainly not a threat to replit's business in any way. Legal action would be a waste of time, money, and PR. Which means that the legal threats levelled against OP are presumably coming from a place of emotion and personal resentment, and I'm very much not prepared to extend the benefit of the doubt to replit under those circumstances.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  CEOs get very invested in their projects. It's pretty much expected. It's their entire life. Many of them have invested everything into their companies, and are terrified of failures (there's an awful lot of FAIL out there). Different Principals have different ways of evaluating threats, and reacting to them. At first glance, this seems like an awful mistake, on the part of the Replit people (Can you say "own goal"? I knew you could!). Maybe there's more to the tale than appears here, but it does seem fairly straightforward; assuming that the emails shared tell the whole story. I hope that everyone finds a way past this, and comes out OK. One thing that I will say, is that the OP seems to be pretty sharp. He's young, and maybe he reacted more quickly and naively than a cynical old bastard like Yours Truly would, but he has done a pretty cool job on his project. It might not be "ship-ready," but it sounds like a great demonstration of his capabilities. Also, as Elon Musk shows, CEOs can cause tremendous damage, if they go off-script. Being a CEO of a public/funded company is a fairly awesome Responsibility. It needs to be taken seriously. I'd say that this very thread shows the damage that can be done to the company. Having this pinned at #1 on HN for all this time is devastating. It's actually kind of horrifying. Like watching a slow-motion train wreck. A lot of Replit employees and VCs are going to take it in the shorts from this. He's probably got some 'splainin' to do... I can't remember the company, but there's a famous object lesson of a UK CEO that destroyed his life's work and corporation, by mentioning an upcoming product too early.
wutbrodo 5y ago
It's not the whole picture, but the article links to the full email exchange. It's difficult for me to imagine what missing information would lead to the CEO's messages being appropriate.
- sintaxi 5y ago
  OP did take the project offline - which shows there is at least some doubt in his own mind.
  - Nekhrimah 5y ago
    My understanding based on the blog post was that it was cautionary due to the threat of legal action. It seems clear that there isn't any doubt - it's caution due to the stakes.
  - vidarh 5y ago
    When faced with an irrational actor making legal threats the rational choice might well be to back down even if you're 100% in the right but your loss from backing down is minor, so it tells us nothing.
jstanley 5y ago
> Not sure how talented OP is. Based on the commit log in the article, he added support for running code in 79 programming languages in 4 days. I'd say he's probably pretty talented.
michaelmrose 5y ago
I don't think anyone who doesn't work for you has any obligation whatsoever to consider your image. As a CEO and public face of a company you should go ahead and assume that anyone you threaten or badmouth will go ahead and talk about it online, on the news, or with a bullhorn at the local mall. He willingly traded some percentage chance at a competitor using an open source project to steal some percentage of his business for this PR nightmare. Personally I think this effort shows the bar for such a project is pretty low so I don't think shutting it down was a good trade off. I think it shows immaturity, bad will, bad faith and honestly its more of a case study in whom not to work for. Most people they would want to hire are liable to have multiple options. They can ill afford to be an undesirable choice.
anand-bala 5y ago
Well, the author did post the entire email thread (redacting information that may be proprietary) on Imgur. Personally, I think the Replit CEO could have explained what the specific issues were before threatening to sue. Since there was no explanation on the CEO's part, I think it's perfectly warranted for the author to make this public.
archibaldJ 5y ago
Interesting to see my post fluctuating between -4~4 points in the first few hours before settling down with the downvotes :) Thanks guys for the comments. Definitely helps to view this matter from more angles, and it's clearer now. This is certainly a case study of who not to work for. (I didn't know so much about Replit and its CEO prior and totally missed the totalitarian vibe he is giving) Curious to see how much the Replit community & ecosystem would be affected this event. This is now on the first page of HN Search https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/

jtouri 5y ago

Reading this part really made my head shake. Attacking a former intern like that, why would anyone want to intern there after this?

zenlikethat 5y ago
That's why I'm glad the OP spoke up. Abusive behavior like this shouldn't be tolerated in the industry and is sadly common. Now I know to avoid this company and individual.
IshKebab 5y ago
Who would want to use replit after reading that? They might have just killed their company. All it would really take is for this guy to put his site back up and add shared links.
- akudha 5y ago
  The other day, someone mentioned avoiding Chinese products and I argued it is not an easy thing to do. But sites like these? Easy decision. After this circus/drama, this site goes into my don't even visit the URL list. What a shitty behavior.
mssundaram 5y ago
You should check out Replit's Glassdoor reviews - avoid!