One problem with building upon a framework of falsehoods is that to be a consistently effective liar, you have to have a fantastic memory to keep your falsehoods referentially consistent.
When I was on the proverbial other side of the table helping to evaluate candidates, I became flabbergasted with the frequent false skills claims of candidates, especially those sent by job shops.
To me, it would be exhausting to be phony. I'd rather save that mental bandwidth for stuff I can feel good about doing.
People can be very good at constructing “facts” that are not correct but desirable to them, and not completely devoid of anchoring.
Like that time they were at a book signing event, asked the author for a two-shot, got a smile for a last joke thrown before leaving for the next in line, and now proudly declare themselves “good friends” with that author.
It’s seldom straight lying and more often omission of critical facts or misrepresentation of their roles on projects. Which sadly is the common advice given to people writing resumes, and it becomes a prisonner’s dilemma.
I assisted at whole interviews where “tech leads’ craftily avoid recognizing they code at most half an hour a day.
Or a dev listing super hard stuff on their resume but never mentioning until thoroughly asked that they pair programmed all of these.
Personally I find pair programming hard stuff way better, because your constantly talking about the challenge a find issues earlier than when you just implement your initial solution.
I never thought that is somehow bad, but I guess people have different worldviews
My broad guess is that 50% of resumes have lies throughout. typically you can smell it during an interview, but on occasion the interviewers that are available aren't themselves technical and people slide through.
One problem with building upon a framework of falsehoods is that to be a consistently effective liar, you have to have a fantastic memory to keep your falsehoods referentially consistent.
When I was on the proverbial other side of the table helping to evaluate candidates, I became flabbergasted with the frequent false skills claims of candidates, especially those sent by job shops.
To me, it would be exhausting to be phony. I'd rather save that mental bandwidth for stuff I can feel good about doing.