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hmm, yeah, well I sorted by salary, proximity and my skills and uhm, yeah, your company came up. Oh, sorry, I mean I really believe in your product and my grandma and I have been using it for 15 years and I want to make a change in the world and Forketyfork Inc. works on exactly that.

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Matching skills is nice, but do you really have no inclinations or preferences at all regarding the domain? You're just as (un)happy to program literally anything for money?

I personally don't do ecommerce and everything vice-related, including gambling. But I can't go to the interview and say: well I've picked you because you're not doing ecommerce and gambling.

Sounds like a good answer to me.

Matching skills/techstack is actually good answer.

On other hand I would not have applied if I did not match at least some lines in your add... But maybe this is projecting my approach to others...

Our company recently received 4k of resumes for single position.

90% wasn't even worth reading (literally zero experience, sometimes plainly saying they're eg salesman right now) - at this point you start to wonder if people did even read the job listing or some just told them IT is easy money.

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