This happens all the time in "Sillyconned Valley." Most people leave a
company to "scam a job elsewhere." It is almost an "idiomatic
expression." That he couldn't perform is enough evidence and not
surprising too. They need to learn to hire older more experienced folks
but they have an aversion towards that though they didn't 20 years ago.
We'll see if Marissa is even there a year from now.
On 01/19/2014 10:12 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
*Most likely he didn't know he wasn't up to it, or thought he could
/get/ up to it if he made a big effort. If he /knew/ he wasn't up to
it, he'd have been insane to take the gig. And for all we know, he
expressed his doubts to Mayer and she told him not to worry, he'd do
great. For her, it was a coup to hire him away from her former
employer--at least she thought it would be.*
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*You're making all kinds of assumptions about him on the basis of no
evidence.*
Sorry but that is because you don't know the tech industry. A little
story, back around 1980 I was out of a playing gig and doing temp
work. I took a week long workshop on hiring by the state's employment
agency. One of the topics was on selling one's self. I raised the
question "what if the person is really good at selling themselves but
not really good at the job itself?" The class responded "yeah, what
about that?" The instructor was a little stumped.
Fast forward to the 1990s when I'm hiring folks and watched *very
carefully* when interviewing and hiring to make sure that these "star"
candidates who put on quite a show really could do the job. There are
lots of great salesmen out there who are poor producers.
So I suspect that what de Castro did that would be wrong or dishonest
was he was an opportunist and did whatever he could possible to get
into a position he was not capable of handling. He should have been
been honest enough to "I'm not up to that... yet." And yes, Mayer
should have been better at filtering it out but then I know how crazy
stuff is in this area and the screwball poor judgment of people and
execs in the tech industry. If anything good comes out of Silicon
Valley it is often by accident. :-D
On 01/19/2014 09:44 AM, authfriend@... <mailto:authfriend@...> wrote:
*Of course not. Why would you think it makes him a scamster? Again,
his hiring was Mayer's poor judgment as to his competence. She hired
him /despite/ his "spotty record." There's no evidence he did
anything wrong or dishonest.*
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More on the guy who got away with the big golden parachute from Yahoo.
"Mr. de Castro, who was hired away from Google, was hardly a tech
superstar. He had a spotty track record at the search giant. And less
than a year before he left, he was demoted from managing media and
platforms to an amorphous role working on 'special projects' on a team
of one. Although he was promoted back into a bigger role several months
later before jumping ship for Yahoo, it was not an auspicious sign for
someone who was going to help turn around Yahoo."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617453-93/fired-yahoo-coo-de-castro-made-more-than-marissa/
Still think he's not a scamster?
