As an interviewer: basically nobody gets 'caught lying' in an interview. You have to lie about something that can and might be checked within the confines of th

As an interviewer: basically nobody gets 'caught lying' in an interview. You have to lie about something that can and might be checked within the confines of the hiring process. Sometimes people fail a vibe check though. It is well worth it to take an afternoon to learn the workflows and the terminology. Confine yourself to ideas where the output is cloaked in your previous employers' IP (or better, confined to your head), and is robust to various degrees of success. Whether you used a tool to translate a fragment from an unfamiliar language, summarize a codebase, do internet research, or develop a high-level design for a feature is essentially an unknowable fact.