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The Classic Recruiter Mix-up: Jason vs. JSON
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The Classic Recruiter Mix-up: Jason vs. JSON

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The image is a screenshot of a tweet from a user named Hamza (@oihamza). The tweet, set in white text against a black background, reads: 'Once I asked a recruiter “who’s Jason” when they were actually asking if I knew JSON'. The timestamp below the tweet says '10:06 AM · 25 Jul 21 · Twitter for iPhone'. The original post's caption adds context: 'Please, stop saying Jason instead of JSON, I swear'. This meme captures a classic and highly relatable moment of miscommunication between developers and non-technical or junior recruiters. The humor stems from the phonetic confusion between the common name 'Jason' and 'JSON' (JavaScript Object Notation), a ubiquitous data format. For experienced engineers, this is a painfully funny nod to the interview process, highlighting the disconnect that can occur when recruiters are unfamiliar with the very technologies they are hiring for

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My resume lists expertise in JSON, YAML, and XML. A recruiter called to ask if I knew their cousin, Jason, and his two friends, Yammel and X-Mel
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    My resume lists expertise in JSON, YAML, and XML. A recruiter called to ask if I knew their cousin, Jason, and his two friends, Yammel and X-Mel

  2. Anonymous

    Told the recruiter my “Jason” skills were solid - right up until he grew past 5 MB and started nesting like Inception, at which point I introduce everyone to Protobuf and quietly deprecate Jason

  3. Anonymous

    The real JSON parsing error here is when recruiters try to deserialize '10 years of experience in a 5-year-old framework' into a valid candidate object - at least this one just had a pronunciation bug in their human speech API

  4. Anonymous

    This perfectly encapsulates the eternal struggle of technical recruiting: when your recruiter's understanding of JSON is so abstract, they might as well be asking about a person. It's the hiring equivalent of 'we need someone who knows Jason, jQuery, and that other Jason guy who does the backend stuff.' At least the candidate didn't respond with 'Jason Bourne? Great movie, but I'm more of a REST API guy.'

  5. Anonymous

    Recruiter's ultimate deserialization bug: JSON.parse('Do you know JSON?') → 'Who's Jason?' - no schema validation in HR pipelines

  6. Anonymous

    Recruiter: “Do you know JSON?” Me: “I keep five versions backward‑compatible with tolerant readers - Jason is the PM who calls it a simple rename.”

  7. Anonymous

    I told the recruiter I know Jason - picky guy: hates trailing commas and breaks your contract tests whenever Product says 'just add one more field'

  8. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

    am I missing something or letter J is pronounced exactly as "Jay"?

  9. @kseniadumpling 5y

    The creator of GIF still insist that it should be pronounced as “JIF” (which, imho, is totally wrong)

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      aye, I pronounce it GIF (not jif) as well. Dunno why people think jif is acceptable lol

    2. Deleted Account 5y

      That's so disgusting

  10. @slnt_opp 5y

    And pronounce S as Z....

  11. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    JavaScript Object Notation. Maybe Douglas Crockdord wrong

    1. @azizhakberdiev 5y

      Well,

  12. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    He created it,

  13. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    But does it mean he also should introduce pronouncation of JSON

  14. Deleted Account 5y

    Instead say Gay son

    1. @Dobreposhka 5y

      Ok, my beloved gay-son

  15. @Dobreposhka 5y

    how should i pronounce it then?

  16. @dsmagikswsa 5y

    Thanks for the sticker

    1. Deleted Account 5y

      You are welcome!

  17. @dsmagikswsa 5y

    Cool

  18. @spiderts 5y

    dudes, im spanish speaker, the recruiters here's spell that like "JOTAson" its terrible

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

      Lol

  19. @pipipuputch 5y

    Why does everyone here speak English? I see your names

    1. @freeapp2014 5y

      Because the rules specify to

  20. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Then want you tocall it Jison

    1. @xtrapower 5y

      that's Gson akshually

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

        😂😂😂😂akshually its actually /s

  21. @NiKryukov 5y

    Jason is Joe Mama's son

  22. Deleted Account 5y

    Jason is fine

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