Google does YouTube

I found this Google recruitment video on YouTube...note, this was put up on April 27, 2006, long before GOOG bought YouTube.

Some comments:

1) Google is putting their recruitment advertising on one of the most highly trafficked video sites on WWW.
2) It didn't cost them a dime.
3) This must have been part of some female software engineer recruiting kick. It's hosted by a woman who is a Director of Software Engineering, and almost all of the interviews are with women software engineers.
4) Beyond all the corporate-speak and "I get to work on amazing things", blah blah blah, Google (at least their Mountain View campus) *does* look like a great place to work (especially for women, hint, hint), at least as "great" refers to benefits, distractions, fun, etc.

I would've expected something a little more quirky and off-beat from Google. Although in looking at past recruitment advertising from Google, that is one area where Google is consistently less quirky and more slick. They've run some pretty nice ads in places like New York magazine.

I'm not positive where else they put this video, but YouTube is a great place to start. It's been viewed 20,677 as of this writing.