This person has been job-hopping to and from non-SWE roles at FAANGs and is now arguably much more 'successful' than I financially, despite having no real skills aside from being an extremely convincing pathological liar. This person was nearly fired from a previous role (after HR suspected resume fabrications used to seek a promotion) but the person quit before being fired, citing harassment from management.
My question to the community: Does the house of cards collapse eventually? Is resume fraud common at FAANG and does it frequently go unchecked? I check this person's LinkedIn from time to time out of curiosity and it contains job titles I know to be complete fabrications. It's very disheartening to have built a career upon ethical behavior and be left behind by those younger and less skilled who are lying a way to the top.
And I've witnessed close-up some fraud where someone got himself hired full time by two companies: bad news for him that they were my clients and he was stationed to sit next to me at both and I knew the senior management well...
It probably does eventually fall apart in most cases: maintaining a lie is hard.
Maybe. Who can predict the future?
"... there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness¹."
> built a career
> ethical behavior
> disheartening
Choose different metrics for yourself. If you are successful by your own measure, it's a blessing. There's always more to do.
¹ Eccl 7:15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...
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