Start-Ups Pretending to Hire Enterprise AE's to Gather Sales Strategies!!!

Hey Everyone-

I noticed a trend recently and I'm starting to draw a heavy correlation with the processes of these small start-ups that barely have a "baked" product but schedule numerous calls with you; specially their "CRO" who isn't a sales person at all, rather a co-founder who's an engineer most of the time. The questions are heavily inundated with what we would consider B2B sales 101 and typically aren't questions asked of us at real sales-centric companies.

To keep it short- am I the only one that feels like they aren't interviews and more of ways that these companies save money by asking us how a sales cycle is run, persona defined, what a 30-60-90 looks like, etc in hopes of them creating their GTM strategy? This company was specifically started by a small group out of India and they were ALL engineers with some stage A funding. They have 3 customers but don't have a fully baked product. They recorded all the interviews for "informational purposes."

I think they are trying to skimp out on consulting fees and doing the real work by wasting experienced candidates time and aggregating all the interview data to help them launch.

Am I crazy? I just feel like my experience was vetted for no purpose of hiring.