[zerotolerance]

The impression that I get is that people with weak technical hiring skills use these lists as a proxy metric. It would be impossible to validate any claim that an applicant can demonstrate proficiency with all the skills in the list and equally unimportant. These people just want someone to walk up to them and lie. If they can't evaluate the quality of the people they hire, they've already hired shitty engineers and I don't want to work with them.

[vonmoltke]

Interesting perspective I had not thought of before. It aligns with my one and only experience with a professional resume writer, who took my resume and fluffed it up with exaggerations and borderline lies.