u/Chanceawrapper wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I'm not trying to attack you, I think your post is almost fair except the title and a few details. Stretching your resume to get an interview is totally fine and yeah everybody does it. If you are straight up lying in the interview saying your open source project was a paying job
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
That's a Codesmith line and the lies continue to the interview.
The policy is to not proactively bring up that it's unpaid and only explain that if explicitly asked. I've interviewed a number of Codesmith people who dance around this and come across incompetent in the first 10 mins until the truth finally comes out and makes the previous 10 mins feel like lies.
So you practice and practice how to talk about the project to both: 1. not get caught in the first place while not saying it was paid work, and 2. if you do get called out, how to handle that smoothly to clarify instead of the interview falling apart.
Presumably the people I talk to need more help because I wouldn't talk to them otherwise, but they all said that's how Codesmith mock interviewers told them to do it.