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| | While Google's phenomenal growth may by the envy of many, Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer has criticised the internet company for trying to grow too fast. In a presentation on Friday at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Ballmer said Microsoft went from 24 to 75,000 people in nearly three decades, while Google had become a very large company in a fraction of that time. "They're trying to double in a year. I think that's insane, in my opinion," Ballmer said. Microsoft, with a more managed growth, had been digesting a certain percentage of growth over many years." "What that has allowed us to do is build up a base of capable people who can take on more capable people." Ballmer also questioned Google's corporate culture of encouraging individual projects by employees. Google is known to allow its engineers devote 20 per cent of their work time to pet projects. "I don't really know if any one has proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. That doesn't create value, in my opinion," he said. |
