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Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson Decide to Become Google Interns

By Kristi Hagen on Mar 25, 2013 - 11:29 AM

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have decided to step into the role as Google interns and thanks to 20th Century Fox we get to watch it all unfold. This summer the latest blockbuster comedy takes a direct crack at Google's culture in the feature film "The Internship." Check out the official trailer below for a quick laugh...

As you'd expect, Google employees had varying responses to the trailer:

  • "As a Google employee I'm not sure whether this is going to be awesome and/or awesomely inaccurate."
  • "Yeah, I'll probably see it, and yeah, it'll probably make me cringe in parts. But, yeah, the whole no-drinking-with-the-boss thing sets the wrong tone on accuracy ;-)."
  • "I had hoped the movie would at least ok, but the trailer looks truly awful. Oh well. "
  • "They got some details right (the CD case nameplates, green badges for interns, the tech stop) but some others painfully wrong (no beer with the boss?!) Uncertain about whether it will be painfully product-placement-tacular."
  • "What bothers me most is that it seems to want to portray Google as a cutthroat place. In my experience, Google works very hard to avoid zero sum games, readily promotes people who did well on a project that failed, and hires people because they're awesome, not because they were better than someone else."

Is this film another Hollywood idea or is it a Google driven ploy to bring awareness to their company and products? Just days after the trailer's release, Google announced that they are always hiring and launched a redesigned jobs page to have a solid place to funnel the potential flood of applicants the film could create.

Google+ and Google Hangouts have been key tools in promoting "The Internship". See the high number of Google+ users following the film's page below. We wonder how many of them are Google employees...

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As for us, we welcome the search engine jokes - the fact that they're at Google's expense just makes them that much more fun :)

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