Sure I mean the extreme form, as in "literally cannot write any code at all" yet getting interviewed at XYZ tech company, and then being shocked when there's a coding interview. Bonus points when they've somehow talked there way all the way onsite, wasting 10+ hours of engineering time, and 48/72+ hours of their own time, before it's discovered that they can't in fact write code at all in any language. (I mean like 1 variable for-loop pseudocode, think fizzbuzz except without any conditional logic, even easier).

People absolutely embellish and get away with it.