Salesmen Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell's (Owen Wilson) employer goes out of business, and Billy applies for Google internships on their behalf.
They are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience.
They are the only interns not of traditional collegiate age.
They will spend the summer competing in teams against other interns 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 home-schooled by a stereo-typically overbearing Asian mother; and Neha, an Indian-American who is an enthusiast of nerd-related kink.