It creates the perception of being the Mensa Society of the digital world - pretentious, exclusive, and only for IQ's higher than 170. I've been interviewed by Facebook, Yahoo and Amazon too, and only Facebook can take after Google in this way. Having been interviewed for management level jobs at Google I can vouch that they can crawl up your ying-yang about your academic record, even if it's from the 80's and you have over a decade of real quality experience to replace it. I was already a Director level manager in the internet when Google was just being founded, so I've watched the company grow from the ground up, and eventually sponge up the mega-companies that produced my primary worktools (such as Doubleclick). The Vaughn / Wilson pair were VERY sufficiently embarrassing with their overzealous attempts at being team players in projects they didn't understand, and as I have worked deep in the internet business since 1996 I cringed harder than the Google interns who tried to cope with them. But he played it so seriously that the overall effect was still amusing. I think the movie tried a little TOO hard to polarize a traditional salesman with the high tech digital age, and some of the Vince Vaughn joke sequences seemed to get a bit tedious. Google is actually a very odd work environment, and the movie makes good points about the depressed state of our modern employment climate for young and old alike. The Internship was a cute movie that certainly has its chuckles. With Bathroom Humor Comedies (Adam Sandler movies, The Hangover, etc) and RomComs being the usual comedic fair at the box office these days, it's refreshing to find a comedy that stands outside of that tiresome trend.
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