Google - driven by what’s inside
Some time ago there was a Fortune story on Slashdot about some analysts considering Google mismanaged badly, since they arrived at their office and couldn’t figure out the hierarchy and who was working on what project. Of course, the story is impossible to trace, since Slashdot search engine is mismanaged equally badly and a search for Google would show up gazillion stories, all of them from yesterday. But here’s an interview with Eric Schmidt, where he explains the hiring principles inside Google, Inc.
The principle that Google operates under is to hire very, very strong-willed, sort of driven persons. We have relatively little management and the management is very, very thoroughly vetted. They both have the intelligence and the history of working in high-tech and they want to work, they want to change the world.