Summary;
The watches' salesmen Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell lose their jobs when the company where they work is sold for losing market for the cellular. Billy and Nick do not have skills but Billy fills the application for a summer internship at Google. The candidates are divided into groups and Billy and Nick join the team of outcast. Now they need to win the tough competition against brilliant college students to be definitely hired by the company.
Characters;
Vince Vaughn - Billy McMahon
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell
Rose Byrne – Dana
Aasif Mandvi - Mr. Chetty
Max Minghella - Graham Hawtrey
Josh Brener - Lyle
Dylan O'Brien - Stuart
Tiya Sircar - Neha
Tobit Raphael - Yo-Yo Santos
Josh Gad – Headphones
Central plot
Billy McMahon (Vince …show more content…
Everyone has something to offer: diversity matters.
In the movie, the recently unemployed salesmen, Billy and Nick apply for an internship at Google. While their backgrounds are much different from the college students in the program, their experience proves to be a valuable component in the end. Their contributions fully support the idea that diversity is important. Today’s problems aren’t one dimensional, so solutions can’t be either. Sometimes you need people who are going to look at things differently.
2. Bonding is an important aspect to productivity
One of the most humorous scenes in the film is when the team of misfit interns decides to take a break from brainstorms for a night out in town. Through all the shenanigans that they decide to do, at the end of the night the team is stronger for it. Where they could’ve pulled an all-nighter thinking of ideas for the project, they spent the night socializing and came out a stronger, more unified team because they got to know each other. Spending time doing activities that may be labelled as “unproductive”, sometimes lead to very beneficial results. As in the case of the movie, where the breakthrough idea came out of a night of …show more content…
However, I think it is something that is often overlooked in networking. In the movie, when the interns are assembling their teams we get a taste of this. Networking is not how many Harvard grads you know. It’s about the quality of interactions. How much can you help someone and how much can you learn from their diverse experiences and perspectives. In the competition that the interns in the movie compete in, it is really networking that leads to success. Often times, networking comes in unusual ways. This is just another reminder to strike up a conversation with the person behind you in the grocery store
The watches' salesmen Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell lose their jobs when the company where they work is sold for losing market for the cellular. Billy and Nick do not have skills but Billy fills the application for a summer internship at Google. The candidates are divided into groups and Billy and Nick join the team of outcast. Now they need to win the tough competition against brilliant college students to be definitely hired by the company.
Characters;
Vince Vaughn - Billy McMahon
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell
Rose Byrne – Dana
Aasif Mandvi - Mr. Chetty
Max Minghella - Graham Hawtrey
Josh Brener - Lyle
Dylan O'Brien - Stuart
Tiya Sircar - Neha
Tobit Raphael - Yo-Yo Santos
Josh Gad – Headphones
Central plot
Billy McMahon (Vince …show more content…
Everyone has something to offer: diversity matters.
In the movie, the recently unemployed salesmen, Billy and Nick apply for an internship at Google. While their backgrounds are much different from the college students in the program, their experience proves to be a valuable component in the end. Their contributions fully support the idea that diversity is important. Today’s problems aren’t one dimensional, so solutions can’t be either. Sometimes you need people who are going to look at things differently.
2. Bonding is an important aspect to productivity
One of the most humorous scenes in the film is when the team of misfit interns decides to take a break from brainstorms for a night out in town. Through all the shenanigans that they decide to do, at the end of the night the team is stronger for it. Where they could’ve pulled an all-nighter thinking of ideas for the project, they spent the night socializing and came out a stronger, more unified team because they got to know each other. Spending time doing activities that may be labelled as “unproductive”, sometimes lead to very beneficial results. As in the case of the movie, where the breakthrough idea came out of a night of …show more content…
However, I think it is something that is often overlooked in networking. In the movie, when the interns are assembling their teams we get a taste of this. Networking is not how many Harvard grads you know. It’s about the quality of interactions. How much can you help someone and how much can you learn from their diverse experiences and perspectives. In the competition that the interns in the movie compete in, it is really networking that leads to success. Often times, networking comes in unusual ways. This is just another reminder to strike up a conversation with the person behind you in the grocery store