The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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    1 year ago

    I answered the ‘why do you want this job’ question with ‘I’m unemployed and need money’, rather than lying about some lifelong ambition to work for a small software company in bumfuck nowhere. Got me the job.

    Of course it depends on the interviewer, but TBH I’d rather work for one that values honesty anyway.

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      1 year ago

      and it should be warned that lying on a resume does come with a risk as a person’s career takes effect. Lying on a throw away job is one thing. But as a person progresses in a career and depending on how small and incestuous an industry is, word of a liar travels fast. A person can get blacklisted fast.