We phone screen candidates and you would be astonished how often you'll ask a basic question then the phone goes dead silent (i.e. on mute) then 20 seconds later he's back and rattles off an answer. Sometimes they don't even mute and you can hear the keyboard clicking as they desperately Google. Sometimes while doing the phone screen I Google, and read what they've just said from the top result back to them, y'know, for lulz.

These days there's so much content around that some people in surprisingly senior positions can wing it, Googling some stuff then c'n'p, and slyly passing the rest to cow-orkers, at least for day-to-day tasks, and at least in the short term. Then one day everyone's busy and Jo(e) Faker has to do some real work.

But you've got to watch out. The very slyness that makes them do this will also get them promoted to management...