At best, it's unethical. Like someone else said, it's maybe possibly legal if done in a very specific and supervised way. That is almost certainly not happeni

At best, it's unethical. Like someone else said, it's maybe possibly legal if done in a very specific and supervised way. That is almost certainly not happening. What's likely is that someone has decided to be diverse and people over the org are doing this on an ad-hoc manner by institution hard and soft quotas. This is absolutely illegal. Speak with an attorney for 30m to discuss this properly. What should you do though? 1. Go along with it. Some of the discovery during the Damore v Google lawsuit found that some Google employees was doing exactly this. Specifically holding positions for under-represented minorities or lowering the hiring bar. 2. Find a new job. A lot of work, and a lot of other companies do similar things. 3. Ignore the instructions. Depending on how invested upper management is in this, it may be a career limiting move and end up requiring (2) anyways. 4. Become a whistle-blower. More of a career limiting move than participating.