I'd bet they started running into a recruiting problem.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
So give up the hazing. We all know the job's not that hard.
However we just recently heard about Amazon hiring to fire, with an internal policy and broken pursuit-of-metrics that yields fundamental dysfunction.
Guess I'm not the perfect person then or else I'd know all of this, right? Fuck that.