It's not about excellence. It's additional leverage for Yahoo in the deal. Only 2 of the 5 employees passed it, so they were able to argue for a lower number fo

It's not about excellence. It's additional leverage for Yahoo in the deal. Only 2 of the 5 employees passed it, so they were able to argue for a lower number for the company. Likely they guessed that only a couple would have been able to pass the interview before making that part of the deal.