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The Internship
2013 · Film · 119 min
Directed by Shawn Levy
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
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There was definitely a time when saying that you worked at Google as an engineer confered massive social status. That's the whole reason why the movie The Internship exists!
It can happen. I thought the Internship movie was just a movie and Google engineers don't really say things like "I'm busy trying to make the world a better place," but turns out that's sometimes what they say. At least before layoffs started.
Has anyone built the app from Google: The Movie yet? Er. I mean The Internship?
I know this topic is pretty exhausted, but hey...
In the terrible movie The Internship they have this "contest" for the interns, where they're all told of a server that has suddenly stopped serving up digital photos.
So they all start writing on a glass wall. No intern says, "hey, let's go and look at the server logs!" Not cinematic, I guess.
I like these shows/movies that chase something like:
* Jobs (2013)
* social network
* halt and catch fire
* silicon valley
* the internship
there's more can't think of right now
I'm looking forward to seeing this when it streams
Google isn't nearly as nice of a place to work at as people make it out to be.
As an example they will finally increase vacation from 15days to 20days on April 1st this year.
The media reports this as "on top of already lavish perks Googlers are now getting 20 days of PTO a year!".
Gee whiz amazing. An increase from 15 days of PTO. If only we didn't much more than that in my much lower quality of life home country as a standard for tech workers.
And sorry if this sounds a bit spoilt. I should be grateful to work at a large megacorp in this economy right? It's just that Google isn't any better in terms of working conditions than any other big tech company. In fact in general it's a little bit worse yet there's propaganda movies (The Internship) about how great it is to work at Google.
It's a job. No one else seems to want to acknowledge it.
Yes, and interestingly enough, this advice can be found in The Internship (aka The Google Movie) [0] towards the end with the pizza parlor.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/
Silicon Valley
The Internship
The Circle
It's possible to get a somewhat accurate view from watching these, but you have to know which parts to completely ignore. I kind of wish there were "this is accurate" edits of those shows and movies.
Not sure if I understand your question. Do you mean the mental issues part?
If so, back then we all just thought the HR posting the job was retarded. If I saw something stupid, the person was stupid. It never hurt me.
Nowadays the whole imposter syndrome is becoming a bigger issue. People are becoming more and more inadequate in their own skin. It’s all just getting offended by stuff seen, no matter how small.
I grew up on, “Do they not like you? Fuck them. Move on.”
Just saying that, I feel like a “back in my day” old man. And I’m only 31.
Now kids are taking the most random things to heart. And it’s sad. Really is. And I don’t have a solution for that other than they’re to just ignore the garbage and plow on. Maybe one day I can figure that out. But as it sits, this over artificial world is poisoning from all directions.
You know that movie Interns with the wow actor going to Google. The two older guys had to convince the kids that their lives haven’t even started yet, even though they thought it was going to end if they don’t get into Google? I use to think that movie was silly. But the tech industry is grooming kids to believe this. These ridiculous job interviews. Ridiculous expectations. Tight crunch times and shit hours. All to think they’re making the world a better place. But let’s face it. There’s no difference between big oil and big tech. They’re the same machine spitting out a different product.
Maybe I’m just the last gen that sees it and shows up to meetings drunk.
Oh yeah, I totally agree. They just do a very good job at marketing their jobs. I mean, no other company has a movie that revolves entirely around how desirable an internship with them is supposed to be [1].
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/
Does anyone remember the movie "The Internship", in which all of interns were IT Support? It's really funny that that they portrayed them as IT Support.
I think that really started around 2005 when they made a concerted effort to ramp up college hiring (and by extension, started advertising among the general public).
I knew someone who worked there in 2002. (Well, now having worked there, I know lots of people who worked there in 2002, but in 2002 I knew someone who worked there.) At the time, they were a small startup with a reputation for hiring only the best, the way you might think of Medallion or D.E Shaw now. There wasn't a perception that you could just walk in off the street and get a job like in The Internship movie.
Reminds me a little of the movie "the internship". That's a good story.
Most of what I know from the company comes from watching the movie The Internship. It seems to be packed full of eunuchs.
They seem to pay and treat their employees well though.
Forty two years ago, I read an essay from 1928 by J. B. S. Haldane titled "On Being the Right Size" [1], it appeared in the wonderful four volume set The World of Mathematics.
I've always remembered the main point: volume and properties related to volume increase as the cube of the scale factor for similar objects while area (surface or cross-section) increase as the square. See for example the Google interview question that appears in the movie "The Internship".
[1] http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
There's even a scene where the main character and the CTO of another corp (trying not to spoil anything), have a conversation about gnome vs. kde.
Haven't watched the show, but this reminded me of that awful line from The Internship, a film I was baited into watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpdngXQOkBI
They've done product placement and they've also done something that Apple never has - they got an entire movie about just their company. It's called The Internship.
Some movies care, some don't. It's very hit or miss.
When The Internship was being filmed, I got asked numerous times for appropriately licensed code for a given scene. They would tell me what the scene was about, i would go and find code that made sense for it. You would think nobody would care about that in a comedy.
Some of the bug fixing people are doing here and there (some was cut, some was not) is actually me fixing bugs in the same code in vim. They wanted it to look completely real.
Interestingly, the people i've worked with who have cared the most about getting stuff right are actually the Silicon Valley (TV show) folks.
So that movie "The Internship" with Owen Wilson was just fiction and Google doesn't really hire out-of-work 40 somethings who don't know anything about tech for their sales experience?
Now movie The Internship is starting to make more sense. I was always wondering why would Google accept watch salesmen as interns.
Is there anyway to call google help directly? I've heard plenty of stories of google automated email support that never adequately explains anything, but I'm curious if you can actually call them.
If anyone has seen the movie "The Internship" there is a scene where they all have to learn how to do phone support. I would find it very weird if that is entirely a lie and it is nearly impossible to call them.
Also he smashed his apple devices because he disagrees with their ideals? That seems kind of immature.
Google's (GOOG) interns held coveted positions even before being featured in the film "The Internship," which hit theaters this weekend. On average, interns there are paid $5,800 monthly, while specialized software engineer interns make as much as $6,700 per month, according to the job-rating website Glassdoor.
Remember that Google pays interns fairly well. It's not like he's running copies and picking up coffee for people at some random office.
The Internship (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/
Good and funny movie, and realistic (if you don't mind the Google logo everywhere)
Antitrust (2001, also known as "Startup")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
Good movie that shows some C, Java and HTML code and also explains "open source". Miguel de Icaza helped them, so you see GNU/Linux desktops and GNOME shell and bash.
What are you talking about, I saw "The Internship." Google has enough phone support to tell grandmothers how to fix GMail problems. Likely a manager will be cut over this, just like the snooty guy who led the other team in the movie. /s
This app was also featured in the movie "The Internship" (starring Google and Sergey Brin on a bike).
Right here in case anyone wants to red it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-internship-not-the-movie.html?_r=0
I think 'destroyed' is a strong word, and it's still early. Damaged? That's probably fair.
I wonder if that's a major reason the Google-centric 'The Internship' movie kinda bombed this weekend. I mean, it might just be a crappy movie (didn't see the reviews), but I do suspect a lot of people weren't really into seeing a movie about Google after all this.