I absolutely agree - if I'm trying to gauge whether an applicant really knows as much as they think they know, I would ask questions where the interviewee might

I absolutely agree - if I'm trying to gauge whether an applicant really knows as much as they think they know, I would ask questions where the interviewee might think "google it" is acceptable, but that would make me trash the application. For example, if someone rates themselves as 7 out of 10 on java, they better be able to come up with a handful of functions on Object that are useful to override, or walk through the rough call sequence to query a database using jdbc. And that should all be from memory. Maybe that's unfair on my part, but I feel like it does a lot to filter for people who can actually walk the walk.