> At this point, it was very obvious to me that he googled the solution. I was amazed that he had the guts to do so in an interview. Just WOW. Frankly, I'm ama

> At this point, it was very obvious to me that he googled the solution. I was amazed that he had the guts to do so in an interview. Just WOW. Frankly, I'm amazed at the guts to say you shouldn't just search for the answer. It's what you want an employee to do. Not just sit around and "think about it" for an hour, only to write something terrible. Search it and find someone who's already done it and use their working solution. I've also had the "guts" to search for things on google in interviews. I've done it doing remote interviews where I share my screen with them. Best time was when I was asked "how do you iterate through a json dict in javascript?" Not being a javascript developer, I'm not sure why they were asking me. But I searched it, and found that one of results to stackoverflow was purple. I told the interviewer "this must be good, since all the other ones are blue." We all laughed (it was a group kind of interview) and I was told "Your Google-Fu is strong." I very quickly received an offer.