There is significant value in being able to understand what one needs to google to begin. Then from there it is not as trivial as it may seem to determine the most appropriate answer, and then to adjust that answer to work within your code base.

You seem to be speaking of this behaviour in a way that implies negativity. Of course it is bad is a Sr. Dev truly can't write any original code, but there's nothing wrong with the vast majority of ones codebase being snippets of solutions from the internet. As a matter of fact this method likely saves the company that employs the developer a good deal of time and therefore, money,