This might be too cynical ... but those that engage in resume inflation and all the other games get the interviews and get the jobs and become the interviewer.

This might be too cynical ... but those that engage in resume inflation and all the other games get the interviews and get the jobs and become the interviewer. Thus git cloning a repo and running scikit-learn on some toy examples without even understanding any of it == Worked on a complex ML problem. As for the CV that says took an online class that involved git cloning a repo and running scikit-learn on some toy examples is a CV you should discard as they probably just went for a cup of coffee and looked at the clouds for an hour.