It's not lying if you're careful how you respond to their question on salary. I always respond with my compensation is $X, where X is my previous year's salary, bonus, and cash value of PTO and other benefits.
But he was lying. That's different. What you're making is irrelevant, and if it is for them (i.e. the company you're interviewing at is making an actual problem of not knowing), then you don't want to work there. What you're looking to make is much more relevant.
'Totally honest' about lying and what was done to achieve a higher salary.
It's not really lying to make the numbers look bigger. It's what everybody does. The guy on the other side of the table will also tell you believable smaller numbers than what he really has in his spreadsheets.
So if everybody lies it is not lies anymore. Interesting.
Look, if you make $73,327.54/year do you say you make $73,327.54/year or do you say you make $75k/year?
No, you don't. If you want to stick with the $75k number, then you say "I make just under $75k". If you want to round, you say "I make $73k".
no, as in honest disclosure of how he has negotiated in the past (by lying through his teeth, repeatedly). Title is a bit misleading, granted.