• by Gavin O'Malley , Staff Writer @mp_gavin, May 11, 2012

Still in damage control mode over his misleading bio, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson tried to clear up the matter with employees, this week. Thompson apparently told the rank and file that before he was placed into a job at eBay subsidiary PayPal in 2005, he had an interview with an executive placement firm. “During this interview, Thompson says he did NOT say he had degree in computer science,” reports Business Insider, citing sources inside of Yahoo.

After the interview, however, Thompson says this executive placement firm produced a document that said he has a degree in computer science. Even more remarkable, Thompson told Yahoo employees that he did not take the time to review said document. “He is suggesting that the person who interviewed him may have been a junior level employee at the executive placement firm,” BI reports. As for why he didn’t correct an NPR interviewer when asked about his supposed computer science degree, Thompson says he never claimed to have said degree, adding that it would have been awkward to correct someone in the middle of an interview.