No I can't. I signed an NDA.

Yes. I created the document in Google docs, and you opened it in Word.

This question should be illegal to ask.

Just lie. There is absolutely nothing unethical about lying about timeframes on your resume.

Looking for a job after being made redundant, but still in good standing with your former coworker or manager? Just say you still work there.

Otherwise they'll have way more leverage when it comes to salary negotiation.

My friend did this when he got made redundant, landed a well paying job, after months of being unemployed.

You have no reason to have a gap on your resume because you'll be unfairly punished for it.

Just lie. It's 100% ethical.

In Germany, just ask them what the gap between 1933 and 1945 in their company's history is as a direct response.

"I was consulting."

It's true, I was giving out advice left and right.

"That is the year when I was happy."

If i have to explain the gap (which clearly means I was not employed), it means you are incompetent, you fail my interview, I don't work with incompetent bosses.

An idiot asked me that once when I had just finished my masters. Like did you read my resume?

That's too much info. A simple "I can" answers their question.

Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.

I got really into table tennis and lost track of time.

Took a year off to let everyone else catch up 💅

"Those are line breaks. You see it's easier to read if you break up blocks of text into paragraphs separated by a whole empty line."

I spent some time in a mountain cave replica in a Nepalese themed restaurant, diligently honing my programming skills without the noise of the outside world. No internet, no mains, no toilet. Just me, my laptop, an angry manager who called the police and 60 charged replacement batteries that fell off a truck.

There I created the art of meditative programming where I learned to program not just my machine, but myself. As a result of this resume gap I am now able to function as a 13.6% more productive employee and have finally met the benchmark of 1.0x engineer. At my former employer I delivered a project which brought them in revenue totaling at least $12, giving me priceless experience because of this training.

Me: "I was moving in silence or under a NDA."

I always put in "traveling overseas"

In my case this is actually true, but I've never had anyone question me taking 12 months off every few years

"Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever."

No boss to confirm/deny, and it's not like Uber is going to tell a random employer when one of their drivers were active.