> Every place I've ever worked, we have explicitly hired inferior candidates due to their racial/gender/etc characteristics. In another comment downthread, I e

> Every place I've ever worked, we have explicitly hired inferior candidates due to their racial/gender/etc characteristics. In another comment downthread, I explicitly say " Don't hire bad candidates. " I'm well aware that there are lots of folks who do DEI wrong or justify bad decisions with it. Moreover, I get why this happens. Lots of people want or need the needle to move, and culturally speaking a company might not be ready yet to actually move that needle. It's growth hacking as applied to DEI, and it sucks. Rest assured that there are people working on fixing this, some in their roles at individual workplaces and others as an industry-wide effort. > I will agree that DEI initiatives are not all bad all the time. That's really what I'm going for here. I'm hoping we can all agree that we could do more to make hiring and promotion and such fair, and just in general that things could be improved in a way that benefits us all. Once we're all in agreement and understand the value prop, we can start holding each other accountable and making sure that we're being fair to everyone.