Would it survive the follow-up?

Pick a claim hiring managers now interrogate by default. See the exact question it invites — then compare a version that survives it against one that doesn’t.

The bullet says
“Led migration to Snowflake.”
The follow-up you’d get

“Walk me through the actual setup — what warehouse size, what’s doing the ELT, who owned the schema?”

Doesn’t survive it“It was… kind of a team effort, I wasn’t as hands-on with the config side.”

Three questions deep and the specifics aren’t there — the tool name was borrowed, not earned.

Survives it“I set the warehouse size, built the ELT jobs in dbt, and owned the schema for the three core tables.”

Goes three questions deep without hesitating, because it’s what actually happened.

Every type below draws a different follow-up — but the pattern is the same: specific claims survive, borrowed ones don’t.

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