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> They do that because HR looks for it.

You've described a beautiful symbiosis.

Half the people in the interviewing process see keyword stuffing as pointless bullshit, and only care if you can reverse a linked list in a language of your choice.

Half of them only care about keyword stuffing, and will send your resume in the shredder if you don't do it.

And the third half see anyone trying to avoid the nitpicks of the second half as a person to expose as a fraud.




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