u/ComradeGrigori wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The level of fraud I’ve seen from job applications has gotten worse. Early this year, I got a couple of experience “Open Source” developers. Last 2 that hit my desk no longer mentioned “Open Source” and one even changed their job title on a prior role to SWE to add 3 years of f
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Sadly this is common with Codesmith grads :( and we get people applying to Senior Engineer roles requiring 5 to 10 years of experience at top tier companies, and the entire resume is 12 weeks of Codesmith, OSP takes up 1/3 the page, 3 other projects take up 1/3, then a tech talk, then skills + education etc...
But it does work sometimes!
The CEO has said that their goal is to make people 'realize how exceptional they are and convey that in non-technical interviews because once they get to technical rounds they do really well but they just have to get the chance'
But I've seen a lot of the documents and nothing explicitly says to lie, in fact they say explicitly NOT to lie. So it's one of those things that might be a disconnect between what leadership THINKS is happening and what's ACTUALLY happening.