> “Faking It Till You Make It” is Horrible Advice If you need a job & can't get a job interview without portraying your experience in a way that makes you soun

> “Faking It Till You Make It” is Horrible Advice If you need a job & can't get a job interview without portraying your experience in a way that makes you sound more established than you are, how else are you supposed to survive? You have to tell people what they want to hear to get noticed, and sometimes that means faking it. Example: "I have worked with Java for 5 years." Does the interviewer need to know you touched Java once a year for 15 minutes 5 years in a row? You're not lying, and it's up to the interviewer to call you on your exaggeration. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive, and that's the way it is. That being said, I hate faking it, and I work hard to graduate to not faking it as fast as I can. But I would never be mad at someone for faking it. Outright lying I have zero tolerance for, but faking it is just fine.