Posted by Mr. Defense
I've more so lied about some of my experience, but nothing heavy like lying about what degrees I hold or anything like that. But I think saying you have a degree that you don't is pretty dumb. But you do what you gotta do. For the most part in my field, degrees aren't really that big of a deal anyway. From my experience, most hiring managers are too busy doing the legwork to track down every reference and to try to find out your experience. I'm sure HR people could do it, but it's not worth the hassle half of the time. The engineering world is fast and busy, so in general if you can get past a technical screening, you normally can get hired. But you most definitely need to be able to fake it till you make it.