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We want to know- what's the craziest, silliest thing you did when you were nesting? We went into a serious decluttering phase and sold, donated or got rid of a lot of what we owned. We were also up by 6 am every morning baking muffins or scones- which though we're sure is typical of some women, was not typical for us...
We also methodically cleaned each room of the house throughout early labor until we just couldn't go on. The kitchen floor didn't get washed.
Rachel over at Small Notebook got us thinking about the subject as she shared her own crazy nesting stories: "Last time, Doug knew I was about to go into labor when I carried a bucket of soapy water to the parking garage so I could go wash his car by hand. I also made him clean out our apartment neighbor's dryer lint pipe. Hopefully it won't come to that this time."
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I became obsessed with repainting all the trim in our house. I will never forget scooting along the floor (8 months pregnant) to paint the base trim. My husband thought I had lost my mind, but I was a woman on a mission.
I sat on the floor and went through each cupboard and took everything out, washed it again, scrubbed the inside, and methodically organized each one. I wish I had that kind of energy now!
I never really went through a nesting phase, which was probably a bummer. I forced myself to clean before the baby arrived, but it wasn't something I felt compelled to do. I think I was the only one who didn't "nest!"
I decided to start a crazy quilt, by hand. I think I really thought I could finish it too.
I sorted my husband's collection of 300 CDs into genres, took the discs out of the jewel cases, freecycled the cases, and put the discs booklets into organizing binders. Had I had another burst of energy, I would have alphabetized the whole lot and loaded each disc into iTunes, too!
The day before my firstborn was born, I woke up and said to my husband, "We're having a yard sale today." And we did! Made a lot of money, too. Nobody likes to haggle with pregnant ladies. :)
In the last trimester of my second pregnancy, I went on a serious decluttering, purging and re-organizing bender. I re-read Maxwell's book and did an almost full-on home cure. I say "almost" because Will was born a week early. I was woken up by my water breaking. My first thought: Holy cow, my water just broke! My second thought: Dang, I won't get to clean the bedroom closet today.
(For those who like closure, the closet finally got cleaned six months later.)
i know i am ready for the baby when i get the urge to rearrange the living room furniture. no joke. with my first, my husband came home from work and his jaw hit the floor when he saw i had moved the couch, loveseat, piano (in my defense, it has wheels and we do have wood floors!!), etc. alas, with my second one this spring, the same urge! this time i waited for him to get home and directed from a chair. much easier, i must say!
I'm 7.5 months along and in the middle of power sanding and painting a 6 foot wardrobe for my kids' room. I've just recently cleaned out my studio and rearranged my space three times and have grand plans to get rid of all clutter in my house via goodwill and craigslist.org before the end of October.
We were on the road during most of my first pregnancy, and I found myself standing in all sorts of motel bathrooms in tons of towns arranging & re-arranging the free tolietries into pleasing orders. Now I'm 7 months pregnant with #2, and I have to say it's much more gratifying to nest in a house of one's own.
Two weeks before my due date with our second child, we made an offer on a house, had it accepted, and I to cleaned out all the closets in the house and completely staged the house to sell all in one weekend. Phew!
I just bought a labelmaker. Nuf said.
Our lease ended April 30 and our son's due date was May 1. Yep, you do the math. My husband bargained with the baby to "hang in there" until he accomplished the move, while simultaneously trying to keep his pregnant wife to not move so I wouldn't go into labor.
So...needless to say...I nested...in secret so I wouldn't get fussed at. :)
Thus, long story short, I ended up stuck atop our new house's kitchen counters, trying to place some dishes on top of the cabinets...at 5:30 a.m. in the morning out of ear range. great.
Good thing our son came a week late.
It gave mommy time to get down.
Bought a house at eight and a half months pregnant.
And hand stitched/repaired a quilt
I made about a gallon of pico de gallo. WHY?
I removed all the dustjackets from our extensive book collection and arranged the books by color to achieve that once-trendy (?) rainbow look. I was a week away from my due date. My husband came home from work and found me on the floor in the middle of a pile of books and jackets. I just looked up at him and said, "I think I started something I can't finish." But I did finish the project. And then I realized that I hated it.
We just finished going through and decluttering/cleaning our entire house, except the master bedroom. It took us two weeks, because I absolutely refused to let anyone go anywhere not absolutely necessary until it was done. I've also painted most of the rooms, and we tore out a closet in our entryway.
Now we are tackling the master bedroom. I'm in the middle of decluttering and painting (yes, at the same time. No idea why). It is taking every ounce of my husband's superior (at least right now) reasoning skills to keep me from tearing out the carpet in there, even though deep down, I know that six weeks isn't enough time for us to do anything with the floor under it.
i am in the throes of nesting insanity right now! i swept under the boiler (furnace) this morning. i re-decorated our main floor this past week. i'm not done yet...9 more days!
I'm only at 6.5 months, but I've already washed all the spice jars and reorganized them, purged a ton of clothes and other stuff, and can't wait to get the last desk out of the nursery so I can obsessively clean the wood floor before the baby furniture goes in...
man, i wish i had that nesting instinct...i have lots of ideas, but that's as far as it ever goes!
I'm a DIY enthusiast (like almost all here) and yet I didn't have a bit of interest nesting in either of my pregnancies. Not sure exactly why. The bedding I ordered for the first baby was out of stock and wouldn't arrive until a month after the birth, so maybe that let me off the hook. I didn't even paint the walls till she was 2 months old.
We had only been in our house we built for a year and a half, so there were plenty of projects to finish, too. The only thing I remember insisting on was that the wide plank floors HAD to be stained and sealed BEFORE the baby came, or the baby would be staining them in a way we might not want. So at 3 weeks left, we stayed with family across town and had the floors done. It's the laziest way I've done a project yet.
Bought a house, moved in 2 months before the baby came. I worked in real estate for years and never understood why all these pregnant purchasers could be bothered moving house at such a time in their lives. But I sure understand it now. When my baby was 3 months old I got the clean out bug and decluttered my house from top to bottom and had a fantastic garage sale. Wish I could get that bug back again!
Love all the comments!
I'm about 3 weeks from my due date now and a couple months ago I had a burst of energy and started decluttering like mad. However, it has since disappated and I'm forcing myself to slowly work through some projects. I really need to clean out my fridge/freezer so I can get some freezer meals in there. Oh and the nursery isn't done yet either. LOL With my first I had it ALL done before I hit 8 months.
With my first, I washed all of her clothing and linens in baby detergent. Then I sorted them all and folded them neatly into lovely little piles in the changing table. Then I realized that the horrible little tags would irritate her perfectly delicate skin. So I cut out all the tags. Then washed everything again. Then folded it again. Then put it all away again.
In retrospect, with my second I realized that this removal of tags was a little sort sighted, because I now had to guess what size everything was.
My second child was due Dec. 4th and I had ALL the Christmas cards written, addressed and stamped and waiting in stacks by the front door by Nov. 15th. I couldn't help myself I had to do it. I also made a spreadsheet with all of the contact information including address and phone number and whether the person/family would get the 'deluxe' or regular card.
I'm expecting our third in seven weeks and nothing really pressing has hit me yet. Although, I'm really trying to make several meals worth of every dinner so that I have at least one meal to put in the freezer. Perhaps once the older kids start school and I've got all that organized I'll start realizing that the baseboards need to be dusted or some such nonsense.
At 36 weeks I was told not to go to work by doctors so I took advantage of the day off and went to the DMV to renew my drivers license. Um, I was admitted to hospital bedrest the next day and delivered 3 days later.
I seriously felt this overwhelming sense that if I didn't renew my drivers license then I was going to get arrested.
baby #1, i took all the stuffing out of the six couch cushions (three seat cushions, three back cushions) so i could wash them in the washing machine, even though i knew i wasn't supposed to. (turned out great.)
baby #2, i called a post-partum doula i know and asked her if she would be my "pre-partum doula" and come over and clean with me once a week. i didn't want a cleaning service, because i wanted a piece of the action, but with a toddler around i knew i also needed help if i was going to accomplish everything i wanted to.
With my second pregnancy we moved into a new house and our back yard had "gone to the dogs" literally. All gravel and poo, so I gutted and re-landscaped the whole thing with grass, flowerbeds and hardscaping. I was a little ridiculous to be out there every weekend while being 6 months pregnant but I wanted a place for out kids to play that wasn't filled with doggie landmines. I'm glad we did it but realize now that it was a little crazy.
I definitely got into more cleaning and organizing but what is funny is I think about my husband more on this topic - because men sometimes do nest too! One day I left for work knowing he and my brother-in-law were going to replace the bathtub in our 1920's house. I came back home at the end of the day to find the ENTIRE bathroom ripped out. That was a hard time with me w/o a bathroom in my third trimester! BUT we did have a nice new bathroom for when baby came.
Thank you, this is great fun !
I'm three months pregnant with my first, and we're moving in our own house a week from today, so my nesting instincts are pretty much limited to packing everything neatly in moving boxes.
I have a (secret) document on my computer where all the rooms are designed, plans are drawn, decorations are listed, and so on...
But tight now, in between boxes, I'm playing Worlds of Warcraft. At 27, that's probably laughable, but then again, when you get 6 visits a day from poeple who may or may not rent your appartment after you, fighting bad guys is a question of mental sanity. Or not.
Love these stories. My husband has told the story of my nesting of 23 years ago so many times....we were living in a lovely old two-story apartment. I ripped out all the carpeting, the floors were gorgeous and only needed waxing--it was only three rooms. Then I painted two bedrooms and bathrooms. THEN I called the landlord and told her. She was okay once she saw it. I can't imagine doing all that by myself now! My 22 year old daughter would have to help me a lot!
These are hysterical. I am 7 months pregnant but for the past month, I have been allotting every weekend to some cleaning task. My planner has something written on it for every saturday or sunday "clean out the freezer", "paint the trim", "organize storage space". I hate procrastination in general, but i know this is a bit insane.
Last week, my husband and i had this discussion:
him: "we are going to have to get that storage space organized before the baby comes"
me: (matter of factly) "oh, i have that scheduled for 2 weekends from now".
him: "wait, you scheduled cleaning the storage space, like in your planner?"
me: "yes. next weekend we are cleaning behind the stove"
im glad i am not the only crazy pregnant woman out there. this post actually made me feel a lot better.
herland, my husband was a nester, too. During the end of my second pregnancy, he re-drywalled two ceilings in our house, painted our kitchen (including a blackboard wall, which I'd always wanted) and our upstairs/downstairs hallway, installed new bookshelves, and totally cleaned the basement (a truly heroic undertaking). It was pretty incredible to witness.
I am loving reading all of these comments!
Well, I had three weeks to go, and all of a sudden I just had to buy groceries. My plan was to make meals and freeze them for after the baby came. I bought about $300 worth of ingredients. While I was standing in line, I felt some twinges in my back and belly. Needless to say, the next day my water broke and the baby came incredibly fast. I never did make the meals, since we ended up going back into the hospital/nicu.
I also cleaned and scrubbed out our big rolling trash can. I don't know why, I just felt this need for everything to be clean.
So we were at one day shy of 39 weeks and duh, my first child was still going to be at least two or three weeks. But I still felt compelled to scrub the corners of the kitchen and the bathroom. With a toothbrush.
The dentist's assisstant called to schedule my 6 month cleaning. "I'm having a baby!" I squeaked. "Right now?" she asked. I calmed down. "Not now. But soon!" So I scheduled an appointment for the next week.
Needless to say, the baby was there the next morning. I didn't get my teeth cleaned for almost a year.
I didn't nest. Felt like a rip-off, too, as I'd been looking forward to a clean house! :)
God you make me feel so guilty!
I also scheduled cleaning and organizing tasks every weekend from about 12 weeks prior until my due date. I only got through half of them because my daughter was born 5 weeks early. We'd been using the nursery as a storage room and had the crib (still in pieces), but nothing else. We did some frantic nesting during the 5 days she was in the NICU. Five months later, I'm still nesting.
I arranged & rearranged my daughter's nursery till the wee hours of the night the day she was due. I, finally, went to bed because I was in serious pain because I'd pulled a muscle in my back scooting furniture around in every imaginable combination. I just couldn't understand why my "pulled muscle" would hurt like the dickens for a few minutes and then the pain would resolve...then come back.
It took me an hour of trying to get comfortable in bed & being so mad at myself for "pulling a muscle" so late in my pregancy when I was already so uncomfortable, to realize...duh. (obviously my first child/pregnancy!)
I didn't really nest with my first child but I sure did with this one! There were about 15 major items on my list including putting a hardwood floor in our major play room (I was tired of pulling playdough out of the carpet). Don't worry - my hubby was nice enough to put in a floor and NOT let me help.
Otherwise, I seem to be average per previoius comments...cleaning, organizing, getting rid of tons of old stuff (having a garage sale this weekend).
Thankfully I'm healthy at 32 weeks, because I still have three more major day projects left. (Cleaning out the bathrooms, getting rid of all old products, etc, and re-organizing kitchen cabinets and scrubbing the walls).
my mom has the worst one. my parents live on 14 acres. when my mom was pregnant with her 2nd baby, my dad had to replace a fence on the property. my mom went to help (i can only assume my dad didn't tell her no, because no one really tells her no!). anyway, after a long day of fence repair, she (surprise!) started early labor - at 5 1/2 months!! needless to say she spent the next 3 months on bedrest. by the time she had me (her 3rd), i think she had learned her lesson. i was 10 days late!
These are wonderful stories!
I'm 15 weeks along now, and have grand plans for the next month, mostly involving throwing away about 1/2 of our belongings. We had the floors refinished 2 weeks ago, and we're still putting everything back... which makes it a great time to sort out what we want to keep, I think.
I haven't felt this huge urge to purge before, and I find it very exciting! (Wish I could have a stoop sale. I'm not sure what my building would say if I set up outside...)
My husband is the nester. We just started our third trimester and he's already put in track lighting; hung a chandelier; rearranged the basement (twice!); turned a wall into a magnetic chalkboard; installed a tv and computer in our bedroom and is now planning to buy, make and hang theatre curtains (our guest room is becoming a nursery so our sun room is about to become a guest room). He also bought new cabinets for the bathroom and is planning to hang those. He plans on painting the nursery with the same magnetic paint.
My contributions: organizing all of our digital photos and obsessing over nursery tours and etsy.
Mind you, the nursery is a pile of boxes... I'm thinking there will be a weekend task sheet in my future...
Y'all are so funny! My nesting is usually limited to a hermitage. Just avoiding people as much as possible for the last week or two of the pregnancy.
I gave away our cats to my parents and our dog to my husband's parents. I consider myself an animal lover, but when I was at the end of my pregnancy, I couldn't stand to see animal hair EVERYWHERE!


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KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- A month ago no one could have guessed, and no one predicted that motorists would be paying so much less for gas as Michigan prepares for the Fourth of July.
AAA of Michigan is predicting this will be the busiest travel holiday of the year, with 1.4-million Michiganders traveling 50 miles or more. Travelers will be taking advantage of a four day weekend if they take a vacation day on Friday.
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WHITNEY HOUSTON's just freshly in the ground, but her clothes are already up for auction. Are her family that anxious to get as much money as possible from her death?
Up for bid at Julienne's Auctions are a black velvet dress, pearl drop earrings, and a brown embroidered satin vest Whitney wore in her top-grossing 1992 film, "The Bodyguard. Julienne's specializes in entertainment memorabilia, and the late six-time Grammy winner's effects above will go to the highest bidder next month…
Whitney's barely been dead a week, and her family have made sure they've stripped the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel room where she died of all personal effects (and anything else that can be lifted, apparently) to prevent souvenir seekers from making off with sundry items. Or are the Houston family planning to sell those off, too? They've already shopped out the funeral footage, in any case. And now Whitney's movie memorabilia are going on the block, as well.
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"You buy items just like a stock. Buy at the right time and sell at the right time, and they just increase in value."
Poor Whitney. Is she, in death, simply a stock option now?
"It's a celebration of her life,"
Julien defends the auction, which is set for March 31 and April 1.
"If you hide these things in fear that you're going to offend someone — her life is to be celebrated. These items are historic now that she passed. They become a part of history. They should be in museums. She's lived a life and had a career that nobody else has ever had."
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One of the pet topics for NBA detractors is that they don't call traveling anymore.
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Congratulations on explaining the joke, loser.
And they're so very fit for that purpose, too.
Prospective Boss: I understand that Mr Jones is an expert Brainf*ck programmer. Is that so?
Reference: Mr Jones worked for Brains, Inc between April and November last year.
Prospective Boss: Well, he claims to have been the main Brainf*ck evangelist on a mission-critical project during that time. Is that so?
Reference: Mr Jones worked for Brains, Inc between April and November last year.
Prospective Boss: Did he at least contribute to the project? What was his job title?
Reference: Mr Jones worked on that project during his employment here. His job title was "Senior Systems Analyst."
Prospective Boss: I hate to ask, but it was kinda dark in that interview room. Is Mr Jones a blonde with a huge rack?
Reference: Mr Jones worked for Brains, Inc between April and November last year.
And so on. This is of course an exaggeration, and I'm sure you can get something from a reference, but as far as I can see they're just CYA HR fodder. Plus the references are often friends or beloved cow-orkers (I mean, would you specify your PHB as a reference?), which is why many people, including myself, hate to pass them out willy-nilly.
Of course, there is one, and only one, case where references work brilliantly as a discriminator; and that's where the prospective hire is asking for an intra-company (or inter-agency, or inter-school) transfer. This is the way it works:
"Is it a good idea for us to hire Mr Jones to program Brainf*ck?" -- "Absolutely! The man is a genius. Plus, he's a really good-looking blonde with great tits!"
(Translation: Mr Jones is a worthless idiot, and his bra-size is 32-B at best. Plus, he dyes his hair with toilet bleach.)
"No way, my man! Mr Jones was personally responsible for the Chernobyl meltdown while he worked here!"
(Guess the translation on this one.)
For 99.9% of referrals, using a divining rod, or graphology, or something, would be a far better idea. The proof is in the pudding. How many TDWTFs do you see that include the actual details of a reference?
The point of the exercise is not to actually design a house in 5 minutes. The point is to see what kind of questions the interviewee asks and how they would gather requirements and understand use cases.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 13:58 • by Anon Fred (unregistered)
My references are extremely valuable to me. They are well-known in their field, and busy.
It especially sucks for consulting companies whose only check they do on you is your references.
That justification flew out the window as soon as he started talking about a house that's actually a Transformer. If it was a requirements gathering exercise, they would have just left it at "draw a house." Now you can ask questions about how big, what color, how many windows.
No, this dude was definitely trying to "simplify" the art of software engineering by dressing it up as house construction.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:04 • by Anon Fred (unregistered)
Well, fuck. That's a house I'd actually want to design!
Simple! Just watch a few episodes of Bob Villa, take a trip to your local Home Depot, head over to the "home improvement" section, and talk to the nearest group of Mexicans willing to do drywall work for bus fare.
No wonder the Amish are such good programmers
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:13 • by Franz Kafka (unregistered)
Also, relevant to the house thing, houses aren't really built for extension - add a story and you had better have a sufficiently thick slab, you may need I-beams installed, and so on. You also have more consideration goven to the overall aesthetics of the thing - you don't want a new chunk of house that looks bolted on, and complicated shapes are harder to waterproof.
Can you tell what I've been look into lately?
If I were asked to design a house and I was truly that frustrated with the interview at that point I think I'd start to have fun with it. I'd start asking mind numbing questions like this:
- How big is the land for the house?
- What shape is the land? Can you draw it for me?
- What city/town is it in? Do they impose any building restrictions?
- How high is the water table?
- Is the land sloped? That could have an effect on the septic field of course...
- What building materials can I choose from? How do their prices compare?
Now if they have well-thought out answers for all of this, not just something off of the top of their head, then you're stuck. But otherwise you can keep going on all day to keep them guessing.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:21 • by Franz Kafka (unregistered)
Well, he did start with 'how do you want it to look', which generally maps to a standard style (colonial, rambler, borg cube), which then suggests where most of the floor space is. The presence of a basement is determined partially by the ground and frost level; once you get that and have an idea how big the house should be, you can look at layout. The interviewer played the clueless moneyman well - that begs for a slapdown (which was delivered), after which point you can decide on the basic paramters of the house, which, btw, aren't easily modifiable.
Also, movable walls are just stupid. Cheaper to make the house bigger.
I have to chime in on this one...
As a developer for over 35 years, (and even having worked for MSFT for a while) I completely AGREE with the technique of asking "brain-teasers" and "non-programming" questions on my interviews.
For many years I have utilized a completely ficticious language for all programming samples that take place on the interview.
In the long hual, I am much more interested in how a person thinks and how they address situations they have never seen before.
I would much rather have and employee who can quickly aquire and then utilize new knowledge rather than an in-flexible expert in a specific knowledge domain.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:34 • by Sanity (unregistered)
That's why I answer with "I would hire an architect." If he insists that I'm his architect, I would answer, "I would go to the library and read books on architecture."
Which is the same as my answer for the Boeing question, by the way: "I would call Boeing."
Someone who attempts to game the question in such a way will likely use the same techniques for real-world problems, where they make a lot of sense -- either delegate to someone much more qualified, or educate yourself. Don't just jump in on the whiteboard and attempt to solve a problem completely outside your field of expertise.
Although I have no problem with stupid interview questions if they can be answered quickly. The rope bridge one took all of two seconds of thought to realize that you just go yourself (you're the fast guy) and ferry everyone across.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:35 • by SomeGuy. (unregistered)
I see it working this way:
Number of Beds.
Number of Baths.
-- Based on family composition.
--With or without nook
Dining Room (or use nook)
Living Room
Family Room or Den TV room
Billiard Room / Games Room (kids?)
Storage space considerations? - Do you have a large collection of empty Whisky barrels you need to store/display.
What type of entertaining do you do?
-- Bar?
-- In home theater?
-- Rubber room with easy to clean surfaces and convenient Tie-down locations?
Lot Size.
Disability (Stairs?)
These are luxury items that you have to tell me about.
I can ask certain questions
Do you want a pool?
putting green,
but I really can't reduce every possible luxury to a binary question.
Obviously theres a hell of a lot more, but this would demonstrate that I'm thinking about fulfilling your needs, not building a house.
I might determine that what you need is not a house at all, but a two bedroom luxury condo with security, pool, billiards room and bondage facilities at the swinger's club next door.
The client usually doesn't know what they need. The client asked for a house, which is a presumption on their part. What they need is a place to live. I, as the analyst will ask you various questions (as above) to help you decide what type of place to live you really want.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 14:57 • by JTK (unregistered)
Why aren't you buying one of the thousands of houses currently on the market, which you can move into much quicker than it would take to design this one?
My living room is quite flexible. It can be easily reconfigured into a family room, game room, sitting room, reading room, and nap room.
I'd have been tempted to throw undue process back at the interviewer. "I'm sorry but we cannot proceed without confirmation of funding and a sign-off on the project charter. Please make sure you use the current version of the P199238-B large project charter template (customized). Only then we can allocate resources."
Another employer who uses riddles in the recruitment process is Google http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/05/cryptic-google-recruitment-billboard.html and supposedly they are a great employer to work for.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 15:19 • by The Heretic (unregistered)
Recruiters: total waste of time and space.
I've had one play the Linux trick with SQL instead. I have SQL on my resume, I actually have a little experience with SQL, but I am upfront with the fact that I am a beginner and still learning. When I made that clear to the recruiter at one job shop he suggested that I leave that out and if the client asked I should just lead them on. Obviously most recruiters have never been in a technical interview where real technical questions are asked about your expertise in any given area.
Then there are the recruiters who don't know the difference between AWT and GWT, or between between any other acronym and another - i.e., almost all of them (if they knew the difference they would be working in tech, not recruiting for it). And don't get me going on recruiters that demand 10 years experience in a technology that has only been around for five years, or that want experience with Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g not being good enough even though Oracle 11g has only been around for six months and many shops have not migrated to it.
Many recruiters go around finding job postings on corporate websites, try to find a matching resume and then spam you when even one word in your resume matches the requirements. I just ignore them and apply for the job directly. Many employers won't deal with recruiters unless they have an exclusive contract with them.
Then there are the recruiters who demand references up front before an interview or even seeing my resume - presumably so they can spam them too.
Anymore I just ignore recruiters - in over 20 years in the tech sector I have never gotten a job through one, and I have only ever gotten one interview (cost me travel money and was a total waste of time because the recruiter misunderstood the job requirements).
I haven't gotten many "why is a manhole cover round questions?" in interviews the last five years or so - mostly fallen out of favor. Most interviewers don't know how to ask the questions anyway, much less how to properly interpret the answers.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 15:38 • by Khanmots (unregistered)
Ah, but that's not the fastest way. That winds up having the times for all the slow people be additive. There's an opportunity presented in the setup to create a pair of slow people so that you only have one of them affect your time.
i.e., you're sending the slow people across serially when you can do so in parallel.
serial method
send 1,10 across (10)
send 1 back (1)
send 1,5 across (5)
send 1 back (1)
send 1,2 across (2)
done! (in 19)
parallel method
send 1,2 across (2)
send 1 back (1)
send 5,10 across (10)
send 2 back (2)
send 1,2 across (2)
done! (in 17)
Personally I find certain types of brain teasers like this to be worthwhile. For instance, think of this problem in the context of an interview for a position dealing with multi-threaded design.
However, some things like weighing a jet... why waste your candidates time?
If architects built buildings the way programmers wrote programs ... the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization as we know it ... :\
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 15:39 • by Anon Fred (unregistered)
You might want to give a few more seconds of thought.
I once saw a house in Turkey that had a first floor and a roof on top of the second floor, but no second floor.
This is Joel's fault: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
"Part 6: the design question. Ask the candidate to design something. Jabe Blumenthal, the original designer of Excel, liked to ask candidates to design a house. According to Jabe, he's had candidates who would go up to the whiteboard and immediately draw a square. A square! These were immediate No Hires."
It's all part of that "move Mt Fuji with a spoon" nonsense. The guy David J interviewed with was just parroting this woolly-headed, new age interviewing B.S.
I've actually had to tell people straight away that I won't be doing any brain teasers or the like. For some reason, people think that's all we ask here...
It's entirely possible the interviewer was either testing his openness to admit when he's out of his area of expertise (building a house isn't a programmer's job) or testing his ability to communicate with the user.
Throwing ideas out for problems you clearly can't solve shows that you're the dishonest type that doesn't care about the project's success and is probably more interested in getting the job regardless of his fit to the position. Whether this particular interviewer was calculated or insane is anybody's guess, but the job of the person(s) hiring is to figure out which candidate is most fitting for the position, not who claims to know the answer to every question asked in an interview. Saying you don't know is a valid response, unless the thing you don't know is critical to the position (in which case you probably shouldn't be applying).
Also, when a user is jumping all over the place with requirements it's not OK to tell them they're getting <this>. You instead need to explain to them that you need to know what they want before you can develop it for them.
It sounded like this particular candidate just wanted to get the fuck out of there though, so that's a different story, but in theory the interviewer could have had valid reasons for asking the questions.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 15:49 • by Michael (unregistered)
His method takes 19 minutes, you have a better one?
So they go:
AD -> 10 min
A <- 1 min
AC -> 5 min
A <- 1 min
AB -> 2 min
Re: I blame Joel
2008-04-10 15:50 • by Anon Fred (unregistered)
This entire thread I've been thinking "if someone wants me to design a house, I'm drawing a fucking square, writing www.joelonsoftware.com next to it, and heading out the door."
Joel! On Software! Inventing dubious reasons to cull programmers since 1998! (It's how we get to be so selective, you see.)
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 15:53 • by Khanmots (unregistered)
Like the one I listed a bit above his comment that takes 17? :)
This is exactly what I would do as well. There are a lot of ways to judge my creativity, intelligence, or design abilities, as well as how I'd cope with shifting user reqs. Asking me random nonsense about a rope bridge or guys in a boat throwing stuff overboard or being shrunk down and put in a blender doesn't really provide a lot in the way of useful insight. And if you think it does, you're not somebody I want to work for.
"Design me a house," the interviewer cheerfully demanded."
See this was your mistake in not taking "the out". What you should have said was "You betcha!" and quickly walked out of the interview and said nothing more.
Then after about six weeks you could have sent some pictures of some housing complex construction site that you had taken (or jacked from Google) and sent a lengthy fax outlining expenditures broken down based on materials, labor costs and given a bank account number for deposit for "works rendered". To add icing on the cake, the report would have a good old fashioned Italian name on it with emphasis on "Family Business", "We get the job done no matter what", and "We kill the competition" references.
That would have taken good care of Mr. HR Know-it-all.
[quote user="Franz Kafka"][quote user="pythonic"][quote user="Outlaw Programmer"]I "get" the whole house metaphor, but I don't think it's really that accurate. After all, people have been building houses for 5000+ years, but have only been designing software for 50 years. If I was an architect and my customer asked me to build a house where they could rearrange rooms or add/remove floors whenever they wanted, I don't know what my reaction would be.[/quote]
The point of the exercise is not to actually design a house in 5 minutes. The point is to see what kind of questions the interviewee asks and how they would gather requirements and understand use cases.[/quote]
Which is EXACTLY what you do as a programmer, so why not ask it in the context of a programming project rather than a house project? It's like asking someone how well they touch type to gauge their dexterity in a bomb-dearming position.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 16:39 • by Michael (unregistered)
Oh yeah, that would do it.
It actually just occurred to me that a "fully customizable" house as per interview spec would probably violate several bylaws in most cities. So my answer to that question might actually be "I'd choose not to build your house because I think I could make more money by suing you."
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 16:54 • by Fraggle My Rock (unregistered)
I found out some time after I was hired that one of the reasons was because I was honest when answering the question: how do you feel about round-trip software engineering? (E.g. with Rational Rose)
How do I feel? I think it's a neat idea in theory but totally impractical in the real world of iterative development and refinement. Far more efficient to have a high-level overview design and not try to design out the minutia until you've got something that works well, then back-fill the details. Designs for the stuff in between are better left to whiteboards, doodles and face to face discussion, not CASE tools.
My interviewers looked at each other and smirked when I gave my answer. Seems they'd been doing exactly that, until upper management recently came down with a directive to use the CASE tools. They liked that I was familiar with the subject and realistic in my assessment of theoretical benefits versus reality.
I just read "Please draw a class model with emphasis on scalability aspects" in the "Build me a house" sentence. Whether this makes any sense is another matter.
I was in a general "Computers for Businesses" type class and the prof thought that a similar problem would be a good way for him to play Solitaire all day, so I argued that the task was meaningless and wasteful; even more so because the majority of students in the class weren't computer students.
He claimed that being able to correlate computer implementations and construction projects was paramount, so I looked up a construction management professor I knew well, called him on speakerphone and asked if he ever asked his students to draw out a software plan or if any CIS/CS majors had taken his classes as an elective for their degree.
My prof turned red when the other prof started rofl'ing. We still had to do the project, but nobody took it seriously. I drew a cubicle with a toilet, roof, and door.
The house question is totally legit for a consulting company.
Businesses don't hire programmers because they want code. They don't care about code. They have no use for code. They want business problems solved. A new staff programmer usualy spends a few years as an apprentice (aka jr. programmer) learning the ins and outs of that business's problem domain. A programmer hiring on to a financial services company for the first time will spend a lot of time learning about financial services before they are promoted to a major problem solving position. A programmer hiring on at an insurance company or medical imaging or whatever else company will likewise spend time learning the problem domain. Figuring out how problems in that specific field are solved. A consultant doesn't have that time. They must be able to figure out a new problem domain quickly and produce useful results... and they can't always subcontract out all the work. They certainly can't say, "your problem is stupid I'm leaving."
So...the job applicant wasn't qualified to do the work.
As for the answer... the best starting point would've been to ask where the house was going to be. Above or below land or sea? In air or space? Once they answer that (e.g. below ground) you'd ask for size and then you say, "first we detonate a small nuclear bomb at the sight to dig the initial hole, then we cast a slab floor. We bring the new homeowner on-sight to verify the work and lay a 17' thick slab of reinforced concrete over the crater with anchor pins for automated, remotely controllable, hanging wall segments and modular fixture units that can be attached to the hanging walls. We then charge time and material to remotely reconfigure the hanging wall and fixture assemblies until the customer accepts the product."
Perfect consultant answer... the house can be as big as they want, have as many rooms as they want, you can keep billing the customer forever for minor changes, and there is no door so the customer can't come after you when the radiation poisoning kicks in.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 17:28 • by Fraggle My Rock (unregistered)
And there will be cake.
"site" not "sight"
"liens" not "leans"
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 17:51 • by Fraggle My Rock (unregistered)
"site" not "sight". <--- full stop
"liens" not "leans". <-- full stop
I'm not sure if you're joking or not. Is that The Real WTF?
"site", not "sight". <--- comma
"liens", not "leans". <-- comma
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 19:11 • by Anonymous (unregistered)
It's a trick question. They are looking for people who suggest cubicles so they can put them in one and argue that the candidate thought they were a good idea. =)
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 19:24 • by The Real WTF (unregistered)
Well, considering the point of that ridiculous exercise is to see how you are at gathering user requirements...
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 20:23 • by Franz Kafka (unregistered)
How is weighing a jet different from weighing the front and back two sets of tires (with attached jet)? If you really need to know, it becomes a mechE problem - design a scale that you can sit a jet on.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 20:28 • by Franz Kafka (unregistered)
Anybody can build a house. There are details (such as meeting code) that would make the house illegal, but you hire experts for that. It'll cost more than if you know how to do for yourself, but oh well. This is akin to asking a programmer how to start a company - nobody knows evberything they need the first time they do it, but it isn't that hard.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 22:50 • by Anony (unregistered)
The thing that's not thought of is the amount of time you have to spend explaining the whole thing to the group. It would probably take more than the two minutes you save by going 'parallel' over 'serial' just explaining, and arguing, about all of the steps.
Faster is not always the most efficient.
Re: Design Me A House
2008-04-10 23:00 • by Matts (unregistered)
Country is applicable to software, so are permits. And leans/financing/profitability is rather significant. Perhaps the metaphor is not all that bad.
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Tobias slowly dying and turning into a ghoul because of his hair plugs is one of the greatest mini tv show arcs in history.
Florida is the Gob of America
My favorite arrested development moments (slight spoilers, nothing big)
Having watched all 4 seasons in the last week and a half, my favorite things from the entire series:
- The first "I'm a monster" reference - I laughed so hard I didn't see anything else for the rest of the episode. I have no idea what happened after that. I was fucking done for the next 15 minutes.
- Lucille's casual racism and homophobia - Between checking the house keeper's bag every time she left the house and her blood feud with the gays… Lucille was one of my favorite people.
- Tobias slowly turning into a ghoul because of hair plugs - The absurdity of the fact that this guy was slowly dying over the course of 4 episodes slayed me. It reminded me of Vampire in Brooklyn.
- Tobias' sexual predator episode - Probably the best episode in all four seasons IMO.
- Annyong's entire existence - And the fact that this nigga was LIVING INSIDE THE WALL for like an entire season.
- Gob's Final Countdown music - Any time Gob was on stage doing his magic thing I couldn't stop laughing. The music only made it better.
- Bob Loblaw's tongue twisters
- Buster's facial expressions - Severely underrated
George Sr is my least favorite character and I'm saddened to find another episode is devoted to him.
This Tobias / To Catch A Predator scene is brilliant.
DUDE … I just got to the "I'm a monster" episode of Arrested Development
I just rolled around laughing so hard I started sweating on my forehead
I'm so fucking done with this show
fucking Buster.
Just finished season 1 of Arrested Development
I love how racist this show is, the casual racism opens up my breathing passageways and fills them with fresh Yosemite oxygen that is free from pollutants and impurities. I breathe it in and feel invigorated and energetic.