Seriously considering faking resume to land high paying job as an experiment. Thoughts?

I mean, if one is self taught and understands concepts (programming for example) as well as a CS grad and has worked on projects at companies, etc. This would usually be enough to convince a recruiter that you're not completely full of it... right?

I'm asking wrt to lying about having degrees, work experience, etc. Not necessarily lacking specific skills. Do this still happen frequently where people would lie about having a degree?

If you are self taught there is no way you will be even close to a CS grad in skills. A recruiter wouldn't know the difference but in an actual interview you would be interviewed by people with degrees and years of experience and they can quickly tell something is off.

I tweak letters of recommendations, have tweaked grades when i started out, made my cv look more streamlined than it was, stuff like that. I haven‘t faked a whole degree yet, but i have definitely considered it.

Yeah psycopaths do it all the time and get away with it. Just dont act suspicious. If you do, then your employer will go out of their way to verify what youre saying is true. If youre confident and believe youre own lie then they wont verify.
Just dont apply to jobs related to medical/lawyer/police/public school teacher/therapist or something similar where you can get into legal trouble for not having a degree or certification.

I thought everyone did this?

Faking degrees? Lolno. There's a good chance of getting caught.

Yes, obviously won't apply to jobs where legality would become a concern.

The old Yahoo CEO did it. It's not impossible to know as much about programming as a CS grad. I'm currently doing a CS degree, most of the curriculum can be self taught. You're right though, in most cases it would be very difficult to learn something like CS to same level as a professional (but still very possible nonetheless).

Considering how easy it is to fake it, and how hard it is to verify that someone has the education they say they do... I'd say it's a lot more common than you think it is. At the end of the day, the employee just wants employees who will get the job done. If a candidate meets all criteria for a position, employers will hire them in a heartbeat (usually).

CS is a lot more than just programming. In fact most of it is not programming. Which is why a self taught programmer just won't have the same level of knowledge.

It does happen but you're delusional if you think it's hard to verify someone's education. There are plenty of such services that companies use to vet candidates. They will verify you have the degrees you claim and if you lied, you will be found out.

Most don't check if you have the education you say you do. Also, alumni from various universities isn't made public. It's all private information that's available upon request by important people only.

Background check companies will be able to find out. But indeed most don't check, which is why people still get away with it. A more common occurrence is that someone did have the degree he claimed but years later it's found out he plagiarized his thesis or something like that.

I’ve done that. Went smooth, but you can only pull it off if you have charisma and luck. I faked a degree, and work experience. Luckily they didn’t do a good background check and used the numbers and names I provided. Worked 3 years in a high paying job in upper management in a well known company (in my country). I was selected for a promotion, but felt like my scam would catch up to me at that point and left. I was given a great resumé and a disgustingly high bonus. I took the money and invested in property so i can work for myself. Felt it too risky to have someone above me after all this.

If you fail, you might be fucked forever so be very cautious.

I fucking hate you so much and you are everything wrong with this world,

Some of use are honest like a reflex. You are genuinely a shitty person if you lie about your history, and no everyone doing it doesn’t make it right

Why? Because he is not a sheep like u who believes u get rich working 40 hrs a week? Fuck u socialist scum

You mean because i took the place of someone who actually went to university, drowned in debt. Maybe had to take up odd jobs just to survive. Then getting a rejection letter because i was tired of living in my rusty ass car and faked my way to a rich life without any consequences? Because the company didn’t do a good job with background checks? As far as evil goes, I’m just the tip of the iceberg that we call humanity.
I’m actually known in my area for being kind and charitable, but it’s easy when you got money to burn. How does that rub you?

I know someone who did this, and it worked

neat. i want to fake my lengths of employment (so i actually did work the job but instead of saying i was there 3 months make it 9). should i mess with my gpa? it's 3.2. maybe i could change it to 3.6.
redpill me on letters of recommendation, what do they do? never had an employer ask for one.

i'm tired that honest people get fucked over and only liars prosper. if everyone else is cheating why should i fuck myself by playing by the rules? god i hate this world