Nick and Campbell was a watch salesmen and they pulled off quite some good records of their past works. Suddenly, one day they got laid off by their employer because he claimed that their business were no longer successful. Having no academic qualifications, both of them had a hard time to look for suitable work replacement. To make things worse, Billy’s wife decided to end their relationship and move out from their house. Nick ended up working at his sister’s mattress store. However, Billy found about Google and submitted fake qualifications for himself as well as Nick. However, they are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience. They will spend the summer competing in teams in a variety of tasks, and only the members of the winning team will be guaranteed jobs with Google. Billy and Nick are teamed with other interns seen as rejects: Stuart, who is usually engrossed in his smart phone; Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American who was homeschooled by a stereotypical overbearing Asian mother; and Neha, an Indian-American who is an enthusiast of nerd-related kink. The team is led by Lyle, who constantly tries to act hip in order to hide his insecurities. Their first task was to find a bug and their team failed because Nick and Billy obviously knew nothing and contributed to their team losing. On the second task, their team rallied and scored a draw against Graham (an egoistic intern), but however they lost because Graham cheated. When the teams are tasked with developing an app, Billy and Nick convince the team to indulge in a wild night out. Before sunrise that same night, Stuart now learns to appreciate his surroundings, and Lyle's drunken antics inspire the team to create an app that guards against reckless phone usage while drunk. They win the task by earning the most downloads.Meanwhile, Nick has been flirting with an executive, Dana, with little success. When he begins attending technical presentations to impress her, he develops an interest in the material. While the teams prepare to staff the technical support hotline, only Billy feels at a loss. A Google employee, "Headphones", who always wears headphones and never socializes, approaches Billy and tells him that the way he interacts with people is special. He tutors Billy on the technical information. Dana agrees to go on a date with Nick, and she invites him in at the end of the evening. During the task, Billy is comfortable with the material, but his team receives no score because he failed to properly log his calls for review. Dejected, Billy leaves Google to pursue a new sales opportunity with his former boss. The final task is announced as a sales challenge. Teams must sign the largest possible company to begin advertising with Google. The team is stunned when Nick tells them that Billy has left, and they declare that they do not want to do the task without him. Nick convinces Billy to return, and Billy leads the team to show a local pizzeria owner how Google can help him interact with potential customers and thereby expand his business, while remaining true to his professional values. Back at Google headquarters, Chetty is about to award Graham's team, Billy arrives throwing pizza at everyone. Chetty recognizes that although the pizzeria is not a large business, its potential is limitless because it is expanding via technology. Graham protests and is dressed down by Headphones, who turns out to be the head of Google Search. Nick, Billy, Stuart, Yo-Yo, and Neha are declared the winners and will receive jobs at Google, which the latter three will start after their senior years in college.
i) 3 interesting words:
1) Circumnavigate - He helped her to circumnavigate a frozen puddle
2) Fatuous – Her fatuous point during the debate costed her team the match
3) Jejune – The poem seems jejune to me despite having received global attention
ii) One lesson I learned from the material is that we must never give up no matter how hopeless life has to offer us because eventually, it will get better. A wise man once said, “In the end, things will get better, if it doesn’t, then it is not the end”.
