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Seems like an obvious case of "shades of grey" vs a binary thing. Most people don't blatantly lie and claim they were the CEO of Apple. But does a random mid-l
by floor2 2y ago
Seems like an obvious case of "shades of grey" vs a binary thing.
Most people don't blatantly lie and claim they were the CEO of Apple. But does a random mid-level engineer at Apple slightly exaggerate their role on a team during an interview? Subjective, but likely very common.
Plus, many jobs are almost intractable to appropriately assign value to. If you were one of 5 people pitching a deal to a company, and it works, who's to say which person was the key to success? All 5 people might truly believe that they were the reason the deal closed and take credit for it in future interviews.
- RajT88 2y agoThis is apparently what was cited. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00055.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0021-9029.... Interesting stuff.