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Mayer's weird actions make more sense in if the later context the article provides is true: that Yahoo is in a de-facto hiring freeze. If Yahoo were trying to grow it would be madness, but they aren't.

I think is her plan to limit managers ability to build empires by only allowing them to replace employees out of a tiny pool hand picked by Mayer. I wouldn't be surprised if it worked, but it's a stunning vote of no-confidence in the entire company structure...