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Searching For Exact Match
React Programming Frontend
5 days ago 15.2M views 1 shares
Searching For Exact Match
Team lead applies to their own company's job posting under a fake name and gets auto-rejected in 6 minutes flat. Plot twist? The filter required "React.js" but their CV said "React" - no .js suffix. So they've been ghosting perfectly qualified candidates for months over a period. Imagine sitting in meetings wondering why "the market is tough" while your ATS is playing the world's dumbest game of exact string matching. React, React.js, ReactJS - pick your poison, they're all getting filtered differently. It's like rejecting a chef because their resume says "culinary expert" instead of "culinary expert." The real kicker? It took them a WEEK to figure this out. A whole week of debugging their own hiring pipeline. If only they'd added some console.log statements to HR's brain earlier.

I Wrote A Regex
Programming Debugging Backend Java Python
1 year ago 558.6K views 0 shares
I Wrote A Regex
BEHOLD! The magnificent horror that is someone's attempt to solve a problem with regex! What we're witnessing here is the digital equivalent of trying to perform brain surgery with a chainsaw while blindfolded. That monstrosity of characters isn't code—it's a cry for help! When your regex looks like someone fell asleep on the keyboard, you've officially entered the ninth circle of programming hell. The developer who wrote this probably started with a simple pattern and then spiraled into madness as they kept adding more and more exceptions until their sanity completely evaporated. Their computer is probably still trying to process this abomination to this day!