[jarpadat]

The joke's on you if your interview process consists of asking googleable questions.

Asking "Define X" questions is a really bad proxy for assessing development skill. If you think developers are winging it by c'n'p--any interviewer who asks the candidate to produce a bunch of facts for an hour is the same, if not worse. You don't interview a classical pianist by asking him what notes are on the keyboard.

[gaius]

The questions are on an ascending scale - this weeds out the bad candidates early on. Things like keywords and syntax are easily Googlable sure, but people who really do this stuff every day will rattle through that section of e interview in 5 minutes.