[rewrew]

You are not kidding! I hire front-end devs and candidates constantly and utterly lie about their HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience (I've had more than one them tell me when we spot it, "Well, it's just HTML and CSS"). We can weed out some via interview questions but for others it's not until we get to our a hands-on coding test (where we watch what they do in real time) that we can spot it. It's extremely frustrating and such a waste of time for us. They are allowed to look things up in our hands-on tests, as we're trying to replicate real-world enviornment, but it still lets us see overall if they can actually implement what we just talked about in our interview (otherwise the questions we asked are useless), and more importantly, if they told the truth about what they just said. The truth has become very important to me in evaluating candidates -- I'd much rather have people say "I don't know" than pretend they know something, and esp. in our fast-paced work environment, we just don't have time for people pretending to know something they don't. How I see it is if you're wiling to lie in an interview then I don't want to work with you. So the two have come together for me, and at least we have this red flag now that I simply will not hire people who lie in any capacity (and a great green flag when people are honest about what they do/don't know).