During an interview with a candidate, they showed a zoom on hover effect on a product card. I asked them to show code implementation.

They explored for some time but couldn’t identify the CSS transition and transform properties right in front of their eyes. In their code.

This casts a shadow of doubt on all your other features. Maybe you copied them too? It becomes hard to recover from this.

Googling is okay. Understand it fully when adding it to your codebase.