Alexandra Baldwin: I Wouldn’t Hire Donald Trump, and I Won’t “Wait and See” Either
I’ll start with the positive. He is clearly a pretty good developer. I think you can chalk much of his success up to “right place, right time,” but it would be disingenuous to dismiss all of his successes as being a function of just inherited wealth or his accidental location in a market that has generated outsized returns for three decades. Simply noting that he’s not as good at it as Stephen Ross or Richard LaFrek is hardly a damning criticism. He builds beautiful buildings, and he tackles projects that feature incredibly complex approval processes requiring navigation through local, city and state boards in abundance.
Further, with incomplete information, it appears as if people genuinely like working for him. Sure, there are stray anecdotes of disgruntled employees and poor working conditions, but generally speaking, for someone with his profile and that many ex-employees, there is not an overwhelming amount of criticism of him. Again, that is a judgment based only on what I can observe – I haven’t stalked Indeed for reviews, for example – but it appears that he takes care of his people and that they enjoy working for him (Trump Model Management seems to be an outlier on this…)
In other words, his resume is fine. He is not an abjectly incompetent executive. I understand why the recruiter forwarded his name to us…it is an interesting background. But we don’t hire resumes, and we don’t even hire strategic plans or interesting visions of the future. We hire people.
“We don’t hire resumes, we hire people” says the future subject of a Title-VII lawsuit over discriminatory hiring practices.
PS I can’t read the article due to work firewalls.Report
It’s actually a BS line anyway.
Studies show that jobs are most often rewarded to prolific liars. Whereas the person with Asperger’s would never consider lying as the idea simply would not occur to them, to a compulsive liar, whose skill at untruthfulness is finely honed through long hours of practice, fudging the facts is a mater of course.Report
But…he’s not a good developer. He had one success, and a ton of failures.
The man went bankrupt with casinos in the stupidest way possible. (He opened up a second casino near his first, similar enough that he now split his customers between TWO casinos).Report
Yeah..it’s like a job interview that anyone over 35 and a us citizen can apply for. The process he describer is more akin to the party nomination rather than the actual election. But it’s only about 50% of the analogy. All in all, more of a waste of digits than not.Report