[vidarh]

Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool.

But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.