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Fired as in you stopped the interview, or you had already hired them and then terminated them once this came to light?

Do not lie on your resume or during the interview.

There are lies and there are lies. For example I wrote some shell scripts to create VMs in AWS and install some packages on them. This appears on my resume as "expert in rapid provisioning of infrastructure as code in the cloud" or something like that. It sounds a lot more grandiose than it really is, but that's just how the game is played these days.

I've heard hiring is not a cheap process. That must have been a critical skill if you chose to restart the process.

Not necessarily. It might not be about the lack of the particular skill they lied about, but the fact that they lied at all and what that indicates about them as a person/employee.

If you fired everyone who ever lied you'd have nobody in your company.