The benefits of diversity are that you get a diverse set of experiences and opinions hoping it will lead to better problem solving. The part where many companie

The benefits of diversity are that you get a diverse set of experiences and opinions hoping it will lead to better problem solving. The part where many companies go horribly wrong is assuming that diverse experiences are proportional to how diverse their gender pool is or how many different skin colors there are in the office. That's a lazy way of hiring. Hiring someone to fulfill a skin color quota or gender quota is like saying "Hey, you are just like everyone else who tried to apply BUT you are a black woman. So go over here to your desk and be the token black woman of the office." That is essentially what a company is doing when they try and fullfil some race/gender quotas.