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I once applied to an internship for a company doing job offers aggregation. During the interview they explained to me that the core of what they did was parsing (partial) html with regex. When I asked why they wouldn't develop a custom parser, they replied to me that they were working on it, but that the internship wouldn't focus on that. I was not disappointed when it didn't get the job.