[jozvolskyef]

I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect answers. I suspected they were resorting to Google, given this was before ChatGPT came out. Much to my surprise, they ended up landing the job.

[PUSH_AX]

Arguably if someone can google the “answers” to your interview questions in 20 seconds they aren’t good questions to ask anyway.

[notahacker]

And if someone's ability to answer questions using search tools in real time is sufficient to impress a series of interviewers, they're probably quite resourceful at finding solutions to problems they've been given a few hours to solve

[metadat]

They got hired even though you said "no"? That sounds extremely unusual, typically employers of SDE types are cautious this way.

[jozvolskyef]

I don't know what exactly happened there. The two of us conducting the interview advised against this candidate in our report. About a month later the candidate was introduced as a new hire on a different team and I never saw them again in a company of <100 people.