Precisely my take. It made everyone look bad except for Rebecca. The reactions I saw on another blog was mostly that Randal was behaving like a jerk or that it was wrong of Trump to immediately steal his thunder - some saying it was racist of Trump to force Randal to "share" the moment with the white runner-up since he didn't make Bill (the white winner) do that for Kwame (the black runner-up) in Season 1.
I also feel Rebecca wasn't really qualified. She says the right things but gets the wrong results. She lost two of her three tasks as project manager by making bad decisions and really lost the final task by downplaying the charity. She is young, charming and tenacious and I do think Trump wants to hire her. The "big surprise" alluded to in the show's previews was obvious that Trump would offer jobs to both. Asking Randal was an awkward thing to do but I'm sure Trump expected Randal to just praise Rebecca and make him look smart for hiring the both of them. Instead Randal blew up the whole plan in Trump's face. He was left on live TV to either diss the advice of his new apprentice or make it look like Randal "fired" Rebecca instead of him. This was truly not the outcome everyone had led up to all night.
I would say that she was less qualified than Randall, but more, or evenly qualified with any of the fired choices.
Excluding Randall, she would have been an acceptable choice over the others. Yes, she is young and lacks experince, but that is expected of any young Apprentice. These faults can be fixed with Time and Experience.
I think Randall looked bad and I think Trump allowed Randall to make him look bad. Not a good start in any new job.