Absolutely, when I worked at (semi-well-known unicorn) a half-dozen years ago on the data-engineering team the manager told me "Hey we want to use spark next quarter, that's a huge initiative."

And I immediately asked, "in what capacity?" And the answer was don't-know/doesn't-matter, it's just important that we can say we're using it. I really wish I understood where that was coming from (his manager resume-building? somebody getting a kickback?)

The most interesting part is that you can say you're doing/using something entirely independent of if you actually are. Sure, that's a lie, but so is only using something so you can say you're using it (sure, they admitted to you that was the reason, but that won't be the reason they put on LinkedIn).

They'll never say it's resume building or kickbacks, they'll invent some technically sounding and/or business reason to achieve the same result.

That's when you rewrite your codebase in the SPARK dialect of Ada and play innocent when your management questions you about it.