u/CI-AI wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Faking work experience is a bad idea. If you do fake it- sure, you might not get a background check yet. But subsequent jobs may ask for it. I think it’s always best to work with what you have and showcase your skill set, not outright lie. A lot of Codesmith disparaging here to
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I used to be more open minded on this based on all the materials I saw that every clearly tell you not to lie.
But there have been some layoffs recently, employees are concerned and some ask/have asked me for advice on what to do because they cannot express their concerns internally.
I don't think it's a mega conspiracy but they are well aware that alumni resumes don't portray what their guidance is internally but they have no control to change that.
The reason I changed my mind is that these placements are celebrated by Codesmith as mid level and senior placements. Not everyone lies and they handpick the ideal alumni to talk about how they didn't lie and got high level jobs, but they are well aware of the ones that are and getting high level jobs and bucketing them all together showing that the handpicked cases are just common examples of the larger pool.
I'm sorry I can't break people's trust and disclose more but there's really a lot going on peer-to-peer with at least a set of alumni that are ambitious and finding ways to get through in this market and get the best jobs they can in this market and those ways involve practicing stretching their experience in many cases and in other cases it's just alumni at companies, leaking interview questions and people preparing for those exact questions, but there's a lot of stuff going on and a lot of opinions on both sides and I don't want to get into that right now.