I've been there more than once. Interviewed for a "CTO" position at a startup that had made national news with an "automated trading platform" for a high end, n

I've been there more than once. Interviewed for a "CTO" position at a startup that had made national news with an "automated trading platform" for a high end, niche product. Turned out it was just a WordPress site and the owner was manually moving numbers around in the admin section. I said that we had to build the thing for real, and he replied, "I'm just looking for someone to take over the WordPress work."