Some people don't even know how to do Google searches. This suggests a productive interview question: ask your candidate a question that they could not possibl

Some people don't even know how to do Google searches. This suggests a productive interview question: ask your candidate a question that they could not possibly answer on their own, then provide them with an internet-connected box, and see whether it even occurs to them to use web search. It's not just programmers; I devoted twenty years to asking medical professionals why I have a constant, raging, unquenchable thirst. That's a symptom of the very worst kind of diabetes, so of course they'd order a fasting blood sugar test. "No doctor, it could not possibly be diabetes. If I had diabetes, I would have been dead twenty years ago." When the tests came back normal, the doctor would lose all interest in talking to me, then refuse to investigate further. Just a few years ago an emergency room resident who I never personally met, but was a member of one of the other websites I frequent, diagnosed it as Psychogenic Polydipsia - "Thirst of the Mind" - which is an uncommon side effect of the medicine I take for my schizoaffective disorder.