We have been in this situation many a times, Now read very carefully
Cummins knew this was 220+ pitch, that's why he picked to bat first, but the sheer luck of the team was not on our side, Head got ducked, Abhi got into an unfortunate catch, SAMAD FUCKED TRIPATHI, SANVIR BEING THE MOST IMPACTFUL PLAYER, SAMAD WORKING AS UNDERCOVER agent, Klassen.... well what to say guy risked the team just for four and the risk didn't paid. Cummins saved our status by taking us to 160. So in my opinion the decision of Cummins was correct but our batting lineup slatted on pitch badly. Batting- 4.89/10
Get this VV out and get markande in, this VV is super average bowler and wasting a valuable overseas seat, bro gave 11 runs per over, he completely shitted on the bowling attack, cummins conceded so many runs in his first over thus giving them much needed momentum! Bhuvi did controlled the first over relatively better then the others, and Nattu tried to clutch but was unsuccessful. The 2 reviews were taken in clear desperation and I need to say i was pretty satisfied by why the review was taken, 2 wickets could had fallen if simply a little luck was on our side, ig the ground of Ahmedabad itself hated cummins. Head bowled pretty satisfactory, and get these player out or i am gonna bomb Vettori and cummins - SANVIR, SAMAD, VV. Keep Nkr in place of klassen and keep 1 seat for overseas empty if we are batting first, and if upper half fails then get Philips in because he is an All rounder! OVERALL TEAM PERFORMANCE- 5.6/10, CAPTAINCY- 4.5/10, i wanted to give higher to captaincy but no results.
Guys we will lift the trophy dont worry, we will get into the finals and get the cup home, keep believing the team. Pls dont give up. My solution is to play aggressively no matter what..... This is what all i can say
MANY MANY MANYYY CONGRATULATIONS AND KUDDOS TO KKR FOR SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CLUTCH. CONGO ON REACHING FINAL!! HOPE WE TAKE OUR REVENGE IN FINAL!
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i'm curious to learn how you've successfully pitched guests to be on your podcast? what worked? what didn't work? what did you learn? i plan to pitch a few executives, so brevity is critical. i think i need to address whats in it for them first, right? and then outline the commitment (30 minutes, 4-5 questions)... am I thinking about this correctly? What am i missing?

So I completed the tutorial, I cut some of my fields, I took a contract to harvest wheat, managed that with AI helping.
Decided to take another contract chasing the ££ and then realised I needed a new machine. Then I spend the next 3 days slowly collecting parsnips from my AI worker, I couldn't figure out a way for ME to drive the parsnip picker and have an AI collect it alongside me, is this correct that the only way is I had to follow to pick up the parsnips with my trailer?
This was very slow but I completed it. Decided to stick to combine because that clears the area much faster so I feel better driving that. Had two AI workers collecting but I had to stop and I can't work out how to get them to follow me.
Finished that and went back to my farm, big weeds all in my fields, one is allegedly growing canola but it isn't ready yet, not sure if I should use a roller or lime on it as that might contaminate my crops? Bought a sprayer and then had to drive all the way back to store to fill it because I don't know how to transport my weed killer in my pickup (what can the pickup be used for - I couldn't tow any of my farm equipment like the combine header trailer).
Then picked a grass mowing contract and rented many machines for what seemed very cheap (I am on easy mode). I could automate a few things but not everything has an AI option.
Anyway, is there more tutorials, or can anyone recommend where to look for very basic step by step. I feel like I need agriculture diploma to understand this lime and fertilising stuff and when to use it. Also the AI issue, I know there's mods but I need to learn the base game first before moving to mods I think.
At least I'm not in the red yet.

Not sure if anyone will be able to help, but I'm trying to use that NewGAN thing to have nicer player pictures.
I've been through the tutorial and have generated the config.xml file, which looks correct to me:

 resource manager options dont preload anything in this folder  turn off auto mapping  logo mappings the following XML maps pictures inside this folder into other positions in the resource system, which allows this folder to be dropped into any place in the graphics folder and still have the game pick up the graphics files from the correct places                                                                

But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get them to work in-game.
I have:

• Reloaded cache
  
• Disabled caching
  
• Reloaded skin
  
• Reloaded whole game
  

But all my players still have the black silhouette. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? (I am using the default skin).
This is with "FMNEWGANv3"
Thanks

I am making my own watch for the first time i have used this case and am using a nh36 movement.
in all the tutorial and walkthrough videos that i saw, the crown should pop or have play when you unscrew it. but mine is rigid.
is this a defect at the case and crown end? or have i done something wrong or missing some thing?
as far as i have seeked for answers there should be a spring in built in the crown, kindly correct me if i am worng
and let me know if there is any fix or workarounds

So for a couple weeks now I've been working with an esp32 and some sensors that require 5V to power them, the sensors power pin says Vcc.
The esp32 is a 38pin board:
https://forum.fritzing.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/ae3dc4cc089ce3e73de2d367da5dbf22102bd7c3.jpg
Im always connecting and will be connecting the board with an USB cable as power supply.
I asked multiple times like 15 times, to different chatgpt instances, if I can power a sensor at pin "Vin 5V" the bottom left corner one colored red, and it said I shouldn't be powering sensors directly on that pin and that I needed to power the sensor from an external 5V power source and that Vin is an input pin to power the board and not an output pin.
I know chatgpt makes mistakes, but not sure why ALL tutorials I find online, they connect sensors to Vin 5V of they are powering the board using USB.
I know the pin says "Vin" which in my opinion is an input voltage pin, but when I hook up a few sensors to it it works just fine, the sensors get power.
What is the correct safe way?
I'm guessing that when you connect the board using USB (which is 5V) then the Vin5V acts as an output of 5V, but you could also power the board using Vin5V and not use the USB port. That's my guess...
What does Vin5V actually is for?
Thanks

No matter how many times i've seen it in the last ~10 years, i'll never get tired of it and it will always make me smile. The diagonal switch from Toni to Dani has always been my favorite recurring piece of play. To me, it's a staple of the team i've grown up watching and i love seeing it so much because it's a constant reminder (to anyone who knows football) that Toni Kroos is the most important player on the pitch. The pass may look simple, but to hit the right millimeter-sized target at the correct time with over 90% accuracy for 10 YEARS is insane. Happy retirement, Don Antonio.

hey there,
I'm once again reaching out because I'm apparently too dumb to get my head round the MCDU in interaction with SimBrief. Here's what I did:

1. Loaded SimBrief, made a short flight plan (Chicago to Toronto) with ILS approach
2. Set up the very same parameters in the MSFS world map (i.e., IFR low-altitude airways, ILS approach, correct runways. It ("naturally") gave me different waypoints but afaik that is to be expected since MSFS doesn't know about my SimBrief flight plan at that point (?)
3. Hopped in a cold and dark FlyByWire A320 and began starting up the machine, did all the usual stuff
4. Last thing, I went into the MCDU and put in all the info from the flyPad that I did understand (I'm not 100% comfortable with the MCDU yet, so some fuel stuff etc I just leave as is). However, I manually entered all the waypoints that I got from SimBrief and the MCDU accepted them after a few hiccups with flight plan discontinuities.
5. Took off and let the autopilot fly me towards Toronto which it did using the waypoints I entered earlier
6. About 50nm out, I see that the flight path seems to indicate a curve directly over the airport...I check the map and the waypoints, all seems correct. There is a curve in the flight path just before the airport - on the radar it looks slightly misplaced since it's directly over the airport and not 25nm out or something. Looks like a typical bug. Anyway, I check my display and it shows the correct destination including correct runway.
7. Since ATC is nowhere to be found (and shit anyway), I descend to 3000ft about 30nm out and watch the autopilot fly a curve that looks and feels quite like the curve I expected on final.
8. At this point, I'm also realizing that MSFS simply ignored 2 waypoints that I inserted to make the approach curve a little less steep (the waypoints are shown on my radar, and they are in the MCDU flight plan, the aircraft somehow just decides to ignore them)
9. However, the autopilot just flies straight over the airport and keeps going straight ahead
10. ?????

why is this happening? There must be something I'm doing wrong, but I don't get it. I thought the entire point of SimBrief is to be able to plan a flight more comfortably and then have the data imported. I can live with having to enter the waypoints myself (even though it feels a little unnecessary, afaik in the real world, this stuff is preloaded in the computer?) but doing all that cumbersome clicking and then having the aircraft simply ignore it at the critical moment is really frustrating....I watched a number of YT tutorials on the MCDU, but I still don't get what I'm doing wrong....
any help appreciated!

Okay, so I'm learning Kotlin and this is probably gonna sound like a stupid question so forgive me. I'm literally on week 1.
I want to add a View here:

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() { override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) val myView: View = View(this).also{ } // setContent { // MyApplicationTheme { // // A surface container using the 'background' color from the theme // Surface( // modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), // color = MaterialTheme.colors.background // ) { // Greeting("Android") // } // } // } } } 

But I'm unsure of 2 things. One is this the correct thing to be passing into the View constructor? How do I add it to the parent or main view?
Now you might be wondering what my reasoning is. Also why am I not just using design part of android studio?
I am trying to build a stand alone view for another project in React Native and as of yet I haven't figured out how to use composables or xml in that. For example the tutorial I'm trying to modify does this with a web view:

class ExpoWebView(context: Context, appContext: AppContext) : ExpoView(context, appContext) { private val onLoad by EventDispatcher() internal val webView = WebView(context).also { it.layoutParams = LayoutParams( LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT ) it.webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() { override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView, url: String) { onLoad(mapOf("url" to url)) } } addView(it) } } 

So right now I'm just trying to figure out how to add a single stand alone view that I can then tack children onto like a video player, images, and text.

I hope y'all find this interesting.
As the only wind musician in the family I was given a clarinet found when my in-laws cleaned out their attic. I tried playing it a little, getting good enough to play some one octave scales and the first couple phrases in "Stranger on the Shore." I put it aside, however, as I had no desire to learn a fingering chart to play a hobby instrument. Recently, however, I discovered something interesting. A music instrument inventor has created an instrument that uses a saxophone mouthpiece and a revolutionary mechanism to create a single reed clarinet like instrument with continuously variable pitch, a property until now unique to the trombone in wind instruments. It is kind of expensive, more than a new trombone might cost, but if I could get one I would certainly try it out. My guess is that given our refined ability to hear correct pitches this would not be hard for a trombone player to learn.
It's called a Glissotar and is made by Glissonic
Note: I have no association with this company. Just thought it of interest.

Welcome to the Tuesday content creator roundup on a Wednesday!
This thread will feature some noteworthy contributions from Flesh & Blood content creators. Lots of gameplay, box openings, discussions etc. Catch up on content by reviewing the links below!
Videos

• SNEEP brings us a Wayyy To Early Nats Tier List with Charles Dunn !!! Flesh and Blood...
• Flesh and Blood TCG streamed Flesh and Blood TCG Calling: Tokyo - Part the Mistveil Draft & Top 8
• DMArmada discusses the MASSIVE LIVING LEGEND POINT CHANGE Flesh and Blood TCG
• AggroBlaze96 streamed Updated Enigma! Flesh and Blood TCG !discord !deck
• Flesh and Blood TCG gives us a Part the Mistveil Sealed Tutorial
• OK&Y Podcast shows the Enigma vs Kayo Flesh and Blood Classic Constructed 340
• Dice Commando investigates an AMAZING Adjustment to Living Legend Points! Flesh and Blood TCG
• FaBled Hunters bring us Flesh and Blood Judge of Judges In Witness Protection
• Cardboard Swords showcases DASH I/O Vs KASSAI - Classic Constructed Armory Gameplay
• AlanLube has a Part the Mistveil Ninja Set Review feat Nghia Tran
• We Make Best streamed Nuu Gameplay Part the Mistveil CC
• Table Games TCG shares My thoughts on the FULL Part the Mistveil Set Flesh and Blood
• Klloo ooyy explains a 693 DMG Turn 1 Max Damage Zen Combo Flesh and Blood TCG
• Kugane shows their 296 Damage > Zen Combo > Zen should stop breeding more tigers
• Infinite Gaming Respawn has a Flesh and Blood Bright Lights Booster Box Rip!
• DcGero shared some Flesh and Blood - CC Practice (Prism vs Azalea)
• CupofTCG shared the Victor vs Viserai - Pro Quest S5 FINALS [Commentary]
• Legacy Tournament Series streamed Kayo CC Armory vs 2x Blitz decks! Flesh and Blood - Zero to Hero
• Game Nerdz TCG bring us a Flesh and Blood: Dusk till Dawn Booster Box Opening
• Lupinefiasco continues Daily FaB #187 Kayo vs. Olympia Flesh and Blood Heavy Hitters
• Samuel Graham Does TCGs says Flesh and Blood: Uprising Is Still One Of My Favorite Sets To Open
• MrE of Rathe shares the Dash I/O Hero Story - Flesh and Blood Lore
• Stefan's Basement asks Can the luck continue??? - Welcome to Rathe Booster box

Blogposts & Other Resource

• Legend Story Studios announced a Living Legend Adjustment
• Legend Story Studios showcased the Summer Convention Exclusive Promo
• Joshua Scott brings us Rules Reprise #19: Part the Mistveil Limited
• Alex Kivitz has a Calling: Tokyo Live Blog
• Organized Play Team announced the June 2024 Armory Kit
• Kasharn Rao gives us a Recap: Calling: Warsaw and a Recap: Battle Hardened: Taichung
• Joshua Scott updates us with Back Alley Oracle #14: Forked Lightning, Concessions, and more
• Kasharn Rao have moved Into the Mist...
• Ethan Van Sant wrote about the Part the Mistveil Set Review - Expansion Slots
• Donnie K discusses An Epic Comeback at Calling: Warsaw
• Jose Lau has their Part the Mistveil Set Review - Assassin
• Jonah Lara does the Part the Mistveil Set Review - Ninja and Generic

Podcasts

• Red Zone Rogue brings us Flesh and Blood Heroes Ranking! (super serious) > Living Legends Podcast Ep 100
• AdventureCo. Gaming posted MST Cards Are Insane! BattleWorn 09 - A Flesh and Blood Podcast
• Runaways Podcast ponders Runaways Podcast Episode 24: How Good is MST?
• Arsenal Pass has Arsenal Pass Ep162 - Part the Mistveil Limited Review
• Fresh and Buds posted 144. Part The Mistveil First Impressions w/ DMArmada
• M-n-R Cast brings us The M-n-R Cast: Nuu Hero, Who Diss?
• Instant Speed: A Flesh and Blood Podcast has a blast from the past in REWIND: A Chat with Bryan Gottlieb of LSS, March 23, 2023 Instant Speed
• Fluke And Box brings us James White - Mistveil Edition #fabtcg
• FaBcast der Flesh and Blood Podcast uploaded Ruckblick Calling Warschau - FaBcast - def Flesh and Blood
• Siblings in Cardboard - A Flesh and Blood Podcast brings us The Veil Has Been Lifted Siblings in Cardboard Podcast Episode 37
• Pitch It To Me Podcast shared Ep. 40 -- Hidden Information

This was another long one! We know this can never be an exhaustive list and many of the creators listed above put out more than one video just this week so feel free to peruse and view past content as well.
Did I miss some great FaB content from last week? Share links and details in the comments below!

Hey Everyone! Welcome to the Cardinals Reddit Daily OveUnder Contest! I’ll post these daily as long as I’m able to, but I’m sure real life will get in the way here and there. This is all for fun. No prizes other than bragging rights.
 

Rules:

• Each question must be answered, including the tie breaker.
• Entries must be submitted before 1st pitch (I’ll do my best to turn off accepting responses at game time).
• Editing is turned off for the form entry. Duplicate entries will all be disregarded.
• At least 5 entries must be made for points to be earned for the day.
• All questions regarding the named probable pitcher will default to the starting pitcher for that team in the event that the probable pitcher does not make the start.

Scoring:

1st Place: 3 Points
2nd Place: 2 Points
3rd Place: 1 Point
Correct Tie-Breaker: 1 Point
10/10 Correct: 1 Point
0/10 Correct: 1 Point
 
I'll keep a tally and post the results as a comment in that day's post and link it in the next day's contest thread. Points will keep accumulating throughout the season. I will be using MLB GameDay and ESPN for official scoring.
Good luck, everyone! I hope you enjoy! I'm also always open to feedback on how to improve or suggestions for questions (it can be tough trying to get enough variety!).
 
Not required for entry, but I’d appreciate leaving a comment/vote for visibility on the page
 

OveUnder Contest: May 21st

 

Vs Orioles, 6:45 CT

 

Kyle Bradish Vs Lance Lynn

 

OveUnder Form Link

 

May 20th Results

 

May Standings

Reddit Username	Points
u/DSchibler	13
u/Flimsy-animator756	7
u/dan81989	6
u/fujiesque	6
u/Weezy2337yadude	6
u/dquizzle	5
u/gonelikecommonsense	5
u/Nurlitik	5
u/PCBangHero	5
u/SomethingAvid	5
u/Kevindoesnotcare	4
u/more_whales	4
u/FKACaptainFlaherty	3
u/jmikesyo	3
u/mogli9998	3
u/newtickled	3
u/Pantherspats	3
u/SGT_Apone	3
u/zap_the_frank	3
u/EE89	2
u/InternetGoodGuy	2
u/jacksonfake	2
u/ski_mom	2
u/StrangerFront	2
u/Xerowaltz	2

 

Overall Standings

Reddit Username	Points
u/DSchibler	28
u/InternetGoodGuy	12
u/zap_the_frank	12
u/gonelikecommonsense	11
u/Dan81989	10
u/more_whales	10
u/PCBangHero	10
u/NotGordan	9
u/Nurlitik	9
u/StrangerFront	9
u/Flimsy_animator756	8
u/jacksonfake	7
u/MVPBaseball2069	7
u/SomethingAvid	7
u/fujiesque	6
u/jmikesyo	6
u/Paulspike	6
u/SGT_Apone	6
u/theredd636	6
u/Weezy2337yadude	6
u/dquizzle	5
u/EE89	5
u/seattle_lib	5
u/Kevindoesnotcare	4
u/Nerp_Rufflez	4
u/aga1397	3
u/FKACaptainFlaherty	3
u/iamfluffhead	3
u/JayBSmith	3
u/kyla__ren	3
u/LookitstheMeta	3
u/mogli9998	3
u/newtickled	3
u/No_communication101	3
u/ohforschern	3
u/Pantherspats	3
u/Pizzayolo96	3
u/tehmeat	3
u/TronaldDumpsLogs	3
u/Vasego1	3
u/Actually_Actuarially	2
u/Bigdaddyice69	2
u/Clueless_in_Florida	2
u/Da_Choppa	2
u/defiant_edge	2
u/jabbernut56	2
u/PhaedrusThaSquatch	2
u/PTF_Voidwalker	2
u/Redflanehot	2
u/rjaspa	2
u/ski_mom	2
u/thachiefking47	2
u/untitled5a1	2
u/Waystonebb	2
u/Xerowaltz	2
u/7thton	1
u/Abyss_in_Motion	1
u/Da_Munchy76	1
u/FrogsOfWar14	1
u/jessner88	1
u/Lefty808	1
u/MissouriOzarker	1
u/UnlikelyCheddar	1

 

OveUnder Questions for later reference:

1) Total Hits in the Game by Both Teams Combined - O/U 15.5 - Corrected question 1
2) Bill James / ESPN Game Score for Kyle Bradish - O/U 54.5
3) Earned Runs Allowed by Lance Lynn - O/U 3.5
4) Ground Ball Outs Induced by both Starting Pitchers Combined - O/U 13.5
5) Hard Hit (95+ MPH Exit Velocity) by Cardinals 1B - O/U 1.5
6) Baltimore Team At Bats with Runners in Scoring Position (RISP) - O/U 7.5
7) Double Plays Turned by Cardinals Defense - O/U 1.5
8) Total Bases for Cardinals Offense - O/U 12.5
9) Total Sacrifice Flies Produced by Both Teams Combined - O/U 1.5
10) Farthest Ball Hit in the Game by Orioles Offense - O/U 402.55 FT
Tie Breaker: Total Pitches Thrown in the Game by Both Teams Combined

I just purchased a car. Its's been under 24 hours, and I've started feeling a bit of buyer's remorse. I bought a used 2011 Mazda3 iSport with 123k miles for 6.7k. The only issue is that the car needs some work. The dash is warped (which I know happens with these models), the AC is already making a high-pitched squealing noise, and I'm pretty sure the suspension or bearings need to be replaced. The AC and suspension/bearings make me regret buying this car. There are a few other things here and there, but those are the most prevalent ones. I'm also gonna have to replace bulbs so that the low beams work, but I plan to do that as a DIY project if I get around to it. Other than that I'd just use the high beams for now.
My other choices were a used 2016 Nissan Sentra SV and a 2017 Kia Forte for 7.8k. I'm trying to look at it positively and know that I would definitely encounter issues with these cars too (especially the Sentra...), but I'm wondering if it was worth it. Should I have bought a newer car? I've done my research and been looking for around 2 months. I did not feel rushed, and my two car friends said that the car was pretty good.
edit: I knew what kinda car I was getting into. It's a cheap, used car. I just wanna get some insight on whether or not I made the right choice. I know what I needed to repair for each car when I checked them out. I'd have needed new tires for both the 7.8k cars before the end of the year bringing it up to a 8.2-4k depending. I think insuring the Mazda was cheaper too, but correct me if I'm wrong.

I did some osint tutorial https://quiz.sector035.nl/beginners/ (challenge 5) where you have to find out when https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUVFeXSdkO8 was uploaded. In the source code it says:
2020-06-04T12:19:58-07:00
sadly even when formatted correctly this is not the solution, it is:
2020-06-04T19:19:58Z as the site https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/ tells me.
does the 07:00 just indicate it is a derivation from standard time or what is the idea? it is really confusing to me.
I also tried looking at the code here: https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/blob/mastejs/youtube-metadata.js but I have no idea of Javascript and am not programming a lot so I don't really understand all the steps he takes to get the correct time through combining the published time + the converted time. He uses the website https://www.timeanddate.com/ somehow but to me it is all magic since even with the javascript playground I found no easy way to debug the code to better understand the steps, maybe someone can guide me on how to do that so I have an easier time looking that stuff up in the future?
Sry for the long text and thank you in advance for any answers!

I know tearing the game apart has been an ongoing thing that some people might have got tired of, but there are some problems with the story that aren't talked about that much and this post is covering one of them. So during the opening tutorial where you learn to play as each character, there’s a moment where you learn to throw grenades and Deadshot says “You don’t always have to be about accuracy, just efficiency” which sounds out of character for him to say. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure the name “Deadshot” in many DC continuities represents that the character takes pride in every shot he takes and rarely misses his target. Accuracy is basically the same as efficiency by his standards. So this minor line of dialogue alone is very questionable and it hurts the game more for having no reason to even be said at all.

Hi!
Im looking into learning saxophone as a complete beginner. Im mainly interested in learning some pop song melodies (ed sheeran, rihanna, … that kind of stuff lol).
I would like to learn this on my own online as saxophone lessons are extremely expensive where I live and mostly focused on classical.
Ive learned myself some pop songs on the piano through youtube tutorials with falling blocks where you had to hit the correct note. I was hoping to find something similar for the saxophone but without much luck so far.
Do you guys have any recommendations on this? Online resources, youtube channels etc? Or do you think its better to learn it with a teacher in person?
Also, how much time do you reckon it would take a beginner to learn a basic pop song on the saxophone? I plan on practicing 4-8 hours a week.
Cheers!

Hi Leetcoders! I wanted to share a successful profile of someone that landed jobs at Meta, Google, and Microsoft with 2 YOE and a Master's degree.
The interview journey is long and difficult. Reviewing someone else's successful interview preparation process and the interview questions they were asked could be super useful to prepare for your own interviews.
Take a break from Leetcode and let's see how they achieved it.
YOE: 2
Previous Company: JP Morgan
Highest Education: Master's
Background: Fullstack Software Engineer

Interview Preparation

Behavioral

• YT videos by Dan Croitor
• Understand various Leadership principles.
• Go through your Resume and write stories following STAR approach Your story should project at-least one of the attribute such as taking lead, resolving conflicts, dealing with ambiguity etc..
• Read, Rehearse and Repeat.

Technical
Coding

• Leetcode
  • Would recommend buying premium subscription. It's worth it.
  • Try to do daily Leetcode challenges. It helps you in being consistent and also covers variety of problems.
  • I used Explore card of Google and Facebook and tried to solve most of the problems.
  • Top 100 questions by frequency.
  • Top 75 LC curated: https://leetcode.com/list/xi4ci4ig/
• Cracking the Coding Interview book
• YT channels/videos:
  • Data Structure lectures by Abdul Bari
  • Graph Theory by Willian Fiset
• Few Tips:
  • Try to solve a problem by yourself, even if you are not able to come-up with an optimal solution.
  • Think about time and space complexity of your solution. Identify sections which can be optimised and think of a better solution/ data structure.
  • After understanding the approach, try to implement it yourself without taking a look at code. This would help you in really understanding the concept.
  • Try to beat 90% of solutions by runtime.

System Design

• Book: DDIA (MUST READ if targeting Google)
• Book: System Design Interview by Alex Xu
• System Design Primer by Donne Martin
• Courses - Groking the System Design and Groking the Advanced System Design
• YT:
  • System Design Interview videos by Mikhail Smarshchok.
  • InfoQ videos and presentations
  • Go through Architecture of popular systems such as GFS, Kafka, Cassandra etc.

Interview Experiences

Accepted: Meta, Google, Microsoft
Rejected: Uber, Atlassian

Meta

Only did Leetcode daily challenges this month and went through 10-15 FB tagged problems(sorted by frequency) before the interview. Spent 1-2 days in preparing for behavioural round as well (writing stories following STAR approach).
Had 2 coding + 1 product design + 1 behavioural round with Facebook.
In 1 coding round I had to solve 2 LC mediums and in other round 1 LC easy and 1 LC Hard was given. Solved all 4 problems. These were all variations of FB tagged problems on Leetcode and if you have solved them, it's fairly easy. Yep, FB is very predictable w.r.t. coding.I had very strong feedback for 2 coding rounds, good feedback for behavioural but my product design round didn't meet E5 expectations. This was I believe happened due to following reasons:

• Never did a mock-up before or gave any product design interview before. This was the first time for me in an interview setup so was a bit nervous a well. I would highly recommend doing some mock interviews.
• I had prepared extensively for system design which focuses heavily on the system side (Database, Schema, Partitioning, Replication etc.). In product design, you are expected to focus more on the API side and High level functionality. I was not given a choice between product design and system design round. Talk to your recruiter and see if you can schedule the round where you are strong at.

Recruiter reached out to me and offered to send my packet to HC for E4 as feedback for product design didn't meet the bar for E5. I declined as it was not worth and a down-level for my experience.

Google

I had 3 coding rounds , 1 system design and 1 googlyness round.
Round 1 (Coding): 1 ambiguous problem with follow-ups. Expectation was to gather requirements and frame the problem statement. Once the scope was defined I provided few solutions with Time/Space complexities. Coded the same. Had few follow-ups w.r.t. what changes I'd make to make it thread-safe etc. This went well.
Round 2(Coding): 2 problems were given. First was related to 2-D matrix and 2nd was a graph problem. Solved both.
Round 3(Coding): A problem statement was given related to a e-commerce website. Had to gather requirements and once the scope was clear I understood it was a graph problem. Provided solutions using both DFS and BFS approach, implemented using DFS. Follow-up was again how to make it thread-safe. Next was kind of LLD question where I was given a problem and was expected to define classes/schema and relations. I provided a generic solution which would scale even for cases outside of problem statement scope.
Round 4(System Design): Was a given a problem related to a real life scenario. Very practical but not something you'd find on any YT channel or course. Since I had never seen the problem before there were no biases or known design in my mind. Kept it simple from the beginning. After gathering functional and non-functional requirements and some back-of-the-envelope estimations presented a very simple high level design. I literally drew just 3 components: client, server and a database. Then started talking about how I can scale each layer and talked about trade-offs as well. This was 1 hr round and first 45 mins went pretty well. In last 15 minutes I wasn't sure about what to talk about more as I was not getting any feedback from my interviewer. I believe he only talked during first 10 mins when I was gathering requirements and he had to answer my queries. In last 15 mins I thought of providing an algorithm of how to implement my approach and talked about few data-structures as well (although this might not be in scope of system design round). After the interview I knew it won't be a No Hire but was also not sure whether it would be Lean Hire or Hire etc.
Round 5(Googlyness): This was the best round. I discussed about various scenarios and situations following the STAR approach. I had prepared a lot of answers w.r.t. ambiguity, leadership, conflict, strengths etc. but I was kind of surprised as he didn't ask any direct questions which you usually prepare. I guess I only used 1 prepared story and rest was on the fly. But if you had prepared enough, you'll know what to answer and how to answer and would be able to relate to it using one of your experiences/projects.
Problems asked in Google were not directly from LC or any other platform. If you had practiced enough, you'll be able to solve them.Make sure you gather requirements, ask questions before jumping to solution. Keep talking and explain your thought process through-out. This is very important as interviewer would be able to judge you better and provide hints, if required.

Microsoft

Round 1 (Coding): It was a online assessment round. I had to solve 2 problems in 90 mins time. These 2 problems were new to me and I didn't find them on Leetcode. I'll categorize them as LC medium from algorithm perspective. But I had to write a lot of boiler-plate code unlike the usual LC mediums. You are given few visible test-cases and option to add custom test-cases. When you submit, 10-12 hidden test-cases are executed which are only visible post submission. So make sure you write your own test-cases well. After talking to various folks and going through community discussions, I also focused on code quality.I was able to solve both of them in 60 mins. Spent next 15 mins in adding comments in various functions to explain what they were doing. I also mentioned time and space complexity wherever I felt it was required. This is really important as this was not the screening round for me but an actual coding round where I would be judged not just on code correctness but also on code quality/modularity.My score was 100% (I passed all the visible and hidden test-cases for both the problems)
Round 2(Coding): 2 LC mediums with follow-ups. This went really well. Since we completed the coding exercise in ~35 mins, spent next 10 mins discussing my work experience/projects.
Round 3(LLD): First 10-15 mins were spent on my work experience. I had to design a Parking-Lot. Went well. You can find a lot of example/tutorials on Youtube etc.
Round 4(HLD): This was the Hiring Manager round. First 20 mins spent on my projects and various discussions w.r.t. how I handled a particular scenario and why I chose one technology over other. Next was given a popular HLD question. I did very well here. I believe this round differentiated between L63/L64 level and given my interview performance, I was offered L64 eventually.
Round 5(Director): This was mostly project discussions and behavioural questions. Nothing technical. Went well.

Uber

Screening Round: This was rather unexpected as interviewer gave me a LC Hard graph problem!! Who expects a LC hard in screening ? Well, Graph theory is one of my favourite and kind of my strength too, so I solved the problem well within time limit. At the start of the interview she told that if I could write the psuedo-code, that'd we fine too. But since we had time, I wrote some test-cases and tried the ones she copied pasted as well. All worked, pheww.
Round 1(Coding): 2 LC medium types. 1 related to Linked-List and other binary tree problem. Solved both.
Round 2(Coding): 1 data-structure design problem with lot of follow-ups including making it thread safe. Similar to Design a HashMap with custom O(1) operations. I was able to come up with design and implemented the same with O(1) complexity. Couldn't find the variation given to me on Leetcode.
Round 3(System Design): Design Uber. (yep, LOL)
Round 4 (Hiring Manager): Mostly project discussions and Behavioural questions.
Round 5 (Behavioural) - Cancelled. I received offers from Google and Microsoft and asked them to cancel as I had a deadline to make a decision on offers.

Atlassian

I felt Atlassian's interviews are really practical and they don't ask questions which you won't be expected to solve on a daily-basis. No screening round here, just a 30 min discussion with recruiter before scheduling interviews:
Round 1(Coding) : 1 problem was given. I was expected to code the same in my preferred IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse etc.). Focus was mostly on data-structures and code quality. The algorithm itself was really easy if you chose correct data-structures. I used HashMap, Set and PriorityQueue in my solution. Created multiple classes, methods etc. Wrote a few test-cases. You end-up writing a lot of boiler-plate code in IDE as you need to write the main class and method, instantiate everything and then create test-cases. I even used a debugger to debug one of the test-case. This round went well.
Round 2(Machine Coding): Asked to implement a Rate-Limiter. Used an IDE again. Was given 1 problem statement and was expected to write a Object-oriented and modular code. This also went well.
Feedback of both the rounds were positive and recruiter scheduled 3 more rounds for me. 1 Design and 2 Cultural fit types. But I had to cancel them all as I had a deadline to make a decision on offers.

Closing Advice

Do not try to memorize or cram anything, it's useless. Instead try to deeply understand concepts and be curious. That's the only way to make this more enjoyable. It's a difficult journey but it will all be worth it at the end!
I hope this provides some perspective on the blackbox SWE interviews and helps you prepare better!
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