How I interview software developers(itistrivial.com)

http://www.itistrivial.com/2011/03/building-team-from-scratch-part-iii-how.html

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And here is the interesting thing – I mostly ignore everything else on the resumes. In other words, if I did not find any negatives, I assume there are absolutely no positives no matter what is written in the resume. Why? Because people lie. Because 80% of all drivers think they are above average. Because smart people just rephrase and embed job description requirements into bullet items of the previous jobs.

I'm occasionally called on to do technical interviews and I've also mostly stopped paying much attention to the resume, for the same reasons. I find the tendency to throw every random technology you've ever even tangentially run across onto your resume especially vexing. I've seen many people with a huge acronym soup of java technologies/frameworks totally fail at FizzBuzz level exercises. On my own resume I'm trying to limit my skill list to things I at least semi-regularly use, but I feel that such an approach probably handicaps me wrt a certain class of recruiters, so I understand why people feel compelled to list everything.