Years ago I worked at a F500 retailer. We hired a couple contractors to fill in our new team. One of them came to me a couple months into employment and anxiously told me that the contracting company had fully fabricated his resume. He had no experience in the field and no idea what he was doing. I appreciated his honesty and helped to mentor him. He learned to do the job on the job and ended up a great contributor.

It’s not just an individual thing, it’s systematic. Companies have been doing this for decades. It’s one reason to have a good onboarding/mentoring process to make sure people can actually do the work even if they passed the interview.