After seeing a few of the ads, I went and looked at their HR website to see what kind of jobs they had open.

Their HR website was all flash, around the time when it was obvious to any competent engineer that flash was going the way the dodo. It also didn't work. (It was one of those websites where someone spent a lot of time concentrating on graphics but didn't really know how to get it to work.)

"Bad smell" was an understatement.

> Their HR website was all flash, around the time when it was obvious to any competent engineer that flash was going the way the dodo

I wouldn't judge a company by its HR website. It's likely a relatively turn-key product that was chosen by a non-technical department and then neglected.

Yeah, I never understood who those ads were aimed at. Buying a superbowl ad for a bunch of money to hit millions of consumers in hopes of a single CEO with buy authority watching the ad?

For one thing it keeps the media sweet.

For all those years in which the Archer Daniels Midland corporation ran ads on Sunday morning political talk shows, ADM got to scam the government and consumers for billions thanks to subsidies they were able to get.

My guess is they're for the thousands of people who could potentially invest in the company.

Those GE ads were hysterical (are? I don't watch much TV anymore...)

Their current one plays the women in STEM fiddle in much the same way. It actually has some social merit if you disregard the reality of working for GE.