Listed a project on my resume I touched for maybe two sprints and got grilled on it for 25 minutes
It was real work and I did contribute, I didn't lie about anything. But I was one of five people on it, I mostly did the API layer, and the interviewer wanted to go deep on data model decisions that somebody else made.
I kept saying "I believe we chose that because..." and hearing how thin it sounded on the way out of my mouth.
Spent tonight going down the rest of my resume asking which of these I could actually defend for half an hour. Fewer than I'd like.
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AnonymousAnon Something that helped me with the partial-ownership ones: I state the boundary up front instead of waiting to get caught out. "I owned the API layer here, the data model was a colleague's call. Happy to talk about either, but I'll be more useful on the first."
Nobody has ever held that against me. Getting slowly exposed over twenty minutes is much worse than declaring it in one sentence.