Lying on resume

Don't lie on your resume. It will come back to bite you. Present yourself in the best light possible but don't flat out lie. There is a coding bootcamp where an instructor told people to put fake experience on their resume and that the coding bootcamp would back you up. It might work short term, but it will catch up with you. The bootcamp doesn't appear to have any students anymore and it caught up with them.

Embellishing individual points is fine as long as the core substance is something you did and can talk about. The number one rule for bullet points is don't put something you can't speak about if asked about that bullet. I looked at thousands of student resumes on intern hiring days and every single person was the "Lead engineer" on the same group projects 😛