Employers check your work history. You'd better be able to back up having the amount of experience they require with paid, value-delivering work at past employers, or they'll pass.

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aworks 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I was an engineering manager an for decades and I did first technical phone screening of a very large number of candidates. I couldn't really assess someone's design and programming skills. So I would pick a particular area they were promoting and go as deep as I could on it, both on the technology and their project experience using it. I weeded out lots of candidates, saving my engineers' interview time for more suitable candidates. And my teams were good at giving me feedback when I let someone unqualified e slip through...

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SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Many actually do not check anything.

	▲	bitwize 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've never actually encountered one who didn't. Just like I've never been able to actually quit on Tuesday and walk into my next role on Thursday the way Hackernews told me "any halfway decent developer" should be able to do. They tend to ask about this sort of thing in interviews too and if you prove not to have the required background, you are considered weak and filtered out. Anyways, checking happens often enough that the risk of being considered a liar and a fraud for claiming experience you don't have is high.