Lying includes - upselling yourself by distorting truth - hiding something when asked - when difficult questions are asked giving answers that side track the question instead of telling you don’t know
It’s up to you how you want to represent yourself. Ultimately, if you don’t live up to the expectations you set for yourself in the interview, then you’ll just get exposed because your work / work product will be unsatisfactory, eventually leading to PIP. I’ve seen it too many times. Good luck
WTF look at all the liars here. No wonder there are so many Indians and Asians in high positions in tech. In my (Western) culture lying is bad and I don’t do it. Yes I suppose it gives us Americans a disadvantage but I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I lied like they do in other cultures. It’s sad though: one of the reasons America hasn’t been a shithole 3rd world country in the past is that we had integrity. Lots of problems recently in the US for sure, we’re going downhill. But I think one reason people often want to immigrate here is that we’re not a country of cheaters and scammers.
>Yes I suppose it gives us Americans a disadvantage yes Americans are the honestest people.
You shouldn’t lie and say you worked on a project you didn’t work on at all. But you can probably exaggerate your participation in some project if you understand enough details to explain it when asked questions about it. I recommend preparing answers to this kind of stuff with Amazon’s leadership principals in the STAR format. It’s actually one of the few good parts of amazons interview process, it really digs deep into your experience.