I'm not sure how anecdotal this is, but I've probably interviewed at least 50+ candidates at companies I worked at before, and IIRC only one of them was black.

I'm not sure how anecdotal this is, but I've probably interviewed at least 50+ candidates at companies I worked at before, and IIRC only one of them was black. It's not like my previous companies didn't want to hire people of colour, but there just weren't any around? The only black dev I know personally is my ex, and he was the only black person on his old team (of devs I mean, there were other black people at his company; it was a big media company) and is the only black dev at the new company he's at. So, these programmes seem to artificially increase the number of PoC in the industry by having a few large companies have diversity programmes, without actually affecting their market share (for a lack of better word) in the industry itself? Is this just the wrong way of thinking about it?