Been a couple of years since I last was an interviewer, but I’m always amazed at people who blatantly exaggerate in-depth experience while seeking a highly technical position.

Job Requirements: Senior Staff, Deep technical work in X, Y, Z

Resume: 10 years as tech lead in X, Y, Z

Reality: Once walked near someone with experience in X, Y, Z and heard them sneeze loudly. Can spell X correctly.

Why do they even bother?

Usually you really don’t need that much experience. There are only a few percent of jobs will need very specialized folks, regardless of that description.

> Why do they even bother?

Because the job requirements on the position are likely to be real as the applicants accomplishments on their resume.

At every company I’ve done hiring at my job descriptions for positions on my team were edited by my boss or hr and read like what was 1-2 levels above the nominal title of the position or had shit like the well worn joke of asking for X years of experience in technology that hadn’t existed for that long.

The entire hiring market for tech at least has devolved into almost 100% noise over the last few years