UPDATE: Within two hours of this post appearing, TripAdvisor curiously pulled both of the video clips from YouTube. The clips also featured in the company's own YouTube channel.
TripAdvisor says it "found out" the video was on YouTube and took it down. The clip wasn't ready yet and hadn't gone through the full vetting process, a spokesman says. Amazingly a production person in TripAdvisor had posted in prematurely.
TripAdvisor is either on a recruitment drive or has turned into one of those companies that likes to create quirky and edgy videos to show off how, err, quirky and edgy it is.
Or both.
The human resources video from the folk at TripAdvisor was uploaded to YouTube this week and paints a heartwarmingly upbeat picture of life at work for the user review giant and its string of subsidiaries.
The five-minute clip (thankfully there is also 30-second version) features all manner of staffers from chief executive Stephen Kaufer and advertising boss Robin Ingle to business development director Nathan Clapton and a whole host of engineers and marketing people.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcVn18keeE8
No sign of the Snarky Owl.