Your post is implying a few things that compel me to ask: 1) There is a pure relative ranking firing cut-off at Yahoo regardless of how well the people at the

Your post is implying a few things that compel me to ask: 1) There is a pure relative ranking firing cut-off at Yahoo regardless of how well the people at the bottom do? 2) Does Yahoo make this clear when they hire you? 3) Your manager was so incompetent that he could not judge your performance outside of customer facing product? 4) A company as big as Yahoo thinks its going to survive alienating the personality that looks for big company culture with that kind of "make the cut" performance review?