Well, think of it this way: 90% chance if they like your inflated resume, they will ask you for a technical interview. If you don't pass that, ok, no harm done,

Well, think of it this way: 90% chance if they like your inflated resume, they will ask you for a technical interview. If you don't pass that, ok, no harm done, if you do, you might get a job, and they think you will be able to do the job at hand. I've advocated what Michael is saying before here. I was lucky to never have to do it, but I have been on the recruiting side and didn't care much for some resume inflation on candidates (specially in companies where HR are involved in the process because no one has 5+ years of mongo experience but if they hear you need an experience mongo guy that is what they are going to put in the ad)