04 Jun 2007, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Dev Marketing,New Work Ways, 1 Comments

Offices

CrunchNotes has posted a video Connected Ventures (a part of InterActive Corp) and includes teams from Vimeo, CollegeHumor, and Busted Tees sites. Based on your age and work sensibilities you’re either going to love ‘the vibe’ or be mortified.

Set aside the fact that anyone over 30 seems to have left after buying the beer. Compare that to the intern video from Microsoft circa 2004 below:

The Microsoft video is quirky and adorable in that slightly awkward way geeks have about them. But when contrasted with the Connected Ventures piece the differences are striking. At Connected Ventures they’re having fun at work, not despite work. At Connected Ventures a good day results in a party. At Microsoft a good day is stealing office supplies. At Connected Ventures you might actually want to hang out with those people outside of work. At Microsoft? Not so much.

So why would any college student continue to seek out Microsoft? Well, for one, it is a resume builder. Two, with $45+ billion in the bank they can afford a few stolen post-it notes and won’t be flaming out half-way through an internship. It’s the safe choice and has been for years…

But given that Microsoft is attracting that kind of talent is it any wonder that innovation and Redmond are rarely synonymous?

I would love to look at college recruiting materials from major corporations and see the state of corporate cultures 5, 10, and 15 years later. What other recruiting videos are out there?