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Both.

I had one weird one. I once interviewed for a gay social network which was going under because they didn't have any engineers left. I am not gay. They tried to convert me. I politely said that while I have nothing but respect for the gay community, I am simply not gay. They said I wasn't the sort of person they were looking for then and said "shoo along then!".



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