One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
@bpedroza
You have a good point, which will allow me to refine my position.
I think that we should stop over focusing on the HOW you did the pattern matching part (oh see, a nice regex! let me make it even better) and focus more on the WHAT it's supposed to do and WHY it's important.
Having the unit tests for the regex allows to reframe the question this way.
Then it's an implementation detail whether you use a regex or a parsing library or whatever, and I am fine with all of those solutions.
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@bpedroza
You have a good point, which will allow me to refine my position.
I think that we should stop over focusing on the HOW you did the pattern matching part (oh see, a nice regex! let me make it even better) and focus more on the WHAT it's supposed to do and WHY it's important.
Having the unit tests for the regex allows to reframe the question this way.
Then it's an implementation detail whether you use a regex or a parsing library or whatever, and I am fine with all of those solutions.