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The trick with these kinds of questions is to take a page from a politician's book and not answer it directly if you feel like you'd have to say "no".

"I built X system in [somewhat adjacent domain]", "[hyper specific domain] is a subset of my work in [more general domain]" etc.



Unfortunately, it was just a series of yes/no radio buttons. Not much room for nuance or spinning.




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