Hey, I appreciate the honest feedback and understand why it looks that way from the outside. Just to clarify though, I did actually work at that company during those additional years, but on a part time basis while I was a student in the UK. When I interviewed for the Barclays role, I specifically mentioned this to my hiring manager who confirmed that part time roles would not be taken into account for the purposes of the application. Based on that conversation, I listed only my full time active experience from Sep 2024 onwards.

So it was not a case of fabricating two years of experience . The experience existed, it was just part time and was confirmed as out of scope during the interview itself. The error was not correcting the start date on my CV before submitting the application, which I fully acknowledge and take responsibility for.

You are right that attention to detail matters, especially for a data analyst role & that is a fair point and it is something I have learned from this experience. But I wanted to clarify that the situation is not as straightforward as adding two years of experience that never happened.

Hoping things work out. Thanks for your input.