Blame all the companies with ridiculously high requirements just to hire people who don't meet all of them. It's a common advice to apply even when you don't meet all the reqs, because it works out so often.
bill_1992
joined 2 years ago
Everyone loves the idea of scraping, no one likes maintaining scrapers that break once a week because the CSS or HTML changed.
Same, having competitors to Android and iOS would be great.
The problem is the job market has basically priced in exaggerations on resumes. People exaggerate all the time and don't get punished for it.
If you don't exaggerate, you may even miss out on opportunities and hamper your career goals whatever they may be, because they already assume you exaggerate and already account for it when reading your resume. And if you don't exaggerate? Well, they're happy to pay you less than they would've.
Certainly at least in tech in the Bay Area, fake it till you make it is the norm. I've met plenty of people with amazing resumes and references just to see them not be as good as advertised.